Henry Ficher wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daniel Feiglin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Shlomi Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 5:37 PM > Subject: Re: Win98 cannot see 2nd fat32 partition after mandrake 7.1 > install(fwd) > > > 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 > > ------------- > <snip> > > > do you know somebody that knows how to make two win partitions and one > > > linux ? > > > That could be a bit problematic since Win XX always wants a primary boot partition. You could do it, but one Win won't see the other. Linux should see them all. There is another trick: Two minimal primary partitions to hold the smallest amount of stuff to bring up either of your Win XX. Then a logical FAT16 for common stuff. I don't know which Win XX you want, so I can't be more specific. (By the way, I didn't follow the Microsoft court case too closely, but I think that their most damaging restrictive trade practice has been and remains their insisting on grabbing the primary partition - all the way back since DOS days. How unnecesary it is, is amply illustrated by OS/2 (of blessed memory), and of course Linux.) One thing I do have, is a dual disk installtion with Win 98 as C (FAT32) and D (FAT32) on a 4.3Gb and a small Linux installation on a second 1.6Gb - and it all works like a charm. If you're still having trouble, give me a call on 053 869986 on Wednesday. Dan Feiglin > > > thanks, > > > > > > Shaul. > </snip> > > I can't put it in a better way as Daniel. I just would add that you should > also make sure you have at hand a good utility to recover your Master Boot > Record to a known condition. fdisk /mbr will save you ('r ass) more than > once. I mostly use Norton Utilities Rescue Disk, but there could be others > just as good I don't know of. > > Once I installed RedHat 6.1 and allowed it to do a Gnome Workstation type > installation. Bad thing to do in a multi-boot system. It installed lilo, > whithout asking, in the MBR and not in the Linux boot partition. So fdisk > /mbr and/or NU Rescue and I was back on my feet. > > Cheers, > > Henry > > ================================================================= > 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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