That is really wierd. I don't have exactlty that combo: I have Win NT on C (FAT), D (NTFS) and then Linux on one system; on another system, I had NT on C (FAT16) and D (NTFS), OS/2 on E (HPFS) and then Linux. 1. Try and get hold of the 2-diskette DOS version of Partition Magic (or something equally serious) and see what it reports about your partitions. 2. It's very important to install in the right order, from intolerant (Win XX) through don't mind (OS/2 for example) and then friendly - Linux. So: 3. Partition your drive C and D FAT16 (yeah, 16!!!), a small /boot partition (one track ~ 15Mb, below the 1024 cylinder level i.e. below about 8.4Gb), then your root partition, and 512Mb swap at the end, out of the way (double your memory). Again, the cleanest way to do this is to use a professional tool like Partition Magic. Using the Linux fdisk will work, but it may simply repeat what you already saw. Remember, Win XX is intolerant. Anyway, if you must use Linux fdisk, stick to FAT16 partitions for now. 4. Install Win 98. Do NOT let it convert your partitions to FAT32. It should see C and D. Install explore2fs, a little Win utility which can see ext2 partitions. (Get it off Tucows, or from http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/). Make sure that you can see your two (empty) Linux partitions. 5. Install Linux. Remember, at the end to let lilo write the boot record to your /boot logical partition and NOWHERE ELSE! Do not mark the partiton active, specially if you have a multi boot manager. You can use lilo as a boot manager, but someone else will have to advise you - I prefer PQ Boot Manager which comes with Partition Magic. In the absence of a decent boot manager or lilo expertise, create a Linux boot diskette for now. (Do it anyway.) 6. When you have both operating systems able to come up either from a boot manager, OR Win 98 from hard disk and Linux from diskette, then, hold your breath and run the Win 98 utility to convert your FAT16 partitions to FAT32. (I don't remember exactly where it is, but I did do it a while back on my kids' computer.) You can also use the diskette based Partition Magic to do it. 7. Again bring up Win 98 and check that you still see C and D. If you don't, it's time to drag out a bottle of something or other and get stoned. 8. Run up Linux. Your Win partitions won't mount.Change the fat entries in fstab to fat32, and remount these partitions by hand. (If that fails, continue with the bottle from 7.) That's it in a nutshell. Daniel Feiglin ------------- Shlomi Fish wrote: > Can anybody help this guy? > > This is the second time I hear about this problem in Mandrake. That's not > good. At least not for Mandrake. > > Shlomi Fish > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:57:13 +0200 > From: Shaul Avraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Linux mandrake 7.1 > > Hello Shlomi, > > my name is Shaul Avraham i have attended in the Linux club lectures till > recently. > > I am trying to move into linux territory. i am trying to install Linux > (mandrake 7.1) on my PC (PIII-500, 128Mb-Ram, 13Gb-HD, 32-ATI-rage128). > > i want to have 2 fat32 (for win98) partitions and the rest for linux. > after the installation process linux can see the two win partitions > (C+D) but the windows cant see the D harddisk (only C exists). > > i have tried deferent combination (including repationing etc.) but > nothing seems to work. > > the installation for one win partition works great (from the linux and > win points of view). > > do you have any idea how to deal with this kind of problem ? > > do you know somebody that knows how to make two win partitions and one > linux ? > > thanks, > > Shaul. > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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