Darren Osadchuk wrote:
>
> If the reason I'm encountering this problem at start-up is
> because, after formatting the drive in Windows, Linux doesn't
> know the filesystem type, my follow-up question would be:
> how do I get past the error (which causes the boot to
> stop in its tracks) to be abl
If the reason I'm encountering this problem at start-up is
because, after formatting the drive in Windows, Linux doesn't
know the filesystem type, my follow-up question would be:
how do I get past the error (which causes the boot to
stop in its tracks) to be able to make the necessary change?
I
Darren Osadchuk wrote:
> I recently purchased a new HD with the express intent of
> (re)installing Linux. It's a 13 GB drive ...
As I have just responded to other mail:
> a) I spent whole day repartioning my 10GB disk with Partition
> Magic with all sorts of funny errors before I discovered ver
Darren Osadchuk wrote:
>
> However,
> re-formatting in Windows makes the Linux boot process freeze
> when it tries to read hdb3 (the Win95 partition). I can't remember
> the exact message, because it's rather long.
When Linux is trying to mount that partition, does it know it's an
msdos partiti
I recently purchased a new HD with the express intent of
(re)installing Linux. It's a 13 GB drive, and since linux is, for the
time being, going to be my secondary OS, I don't need all
that space devoted to it. So I decided to use about 5GB
for Linux, and create a single Win95 partition out of the
