db wrote:
Someone has advised getting and using XOSL boot manager because it has a
superior disk partitioner and others have given me mixed reviews about
buying Partition Magic. I might go try one of these methods if there is not
a more direct method but they both seem a little round about
I can't tell you how to unfoul your partitions but I can give you a copy
of PM that I currently own. If that will help that is.
I have an ftp connection I use *simple DSL* which you're welcome to use
to get the files.
Femme
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We'll do as you suggest and go
But best is to download XOSL from http://www.xosl.org, put it on a
floppy, and install it. It is free. When it is running, ^P will
bring up the Ranish Partition Manager which will show you exactly what
is illegal (marked in red) about your partition table(s), and lead you
through the
FemmeFatale wrote:
I can't tell you how to unfoul your partitions but I can give you a copy
of PM that I currently own. If that will help that is.
There are days it doesn't pay to get outta bed... I have a legit copy of
PM am willing to part with it by cd or ftp...whichever. I don't use
dbota wrote:
But best is to download XOSL from http://www.xosl.org, put it on a
floppy, and install it. It is free. When it is running, ^P will
bring up the Ranish Partition Manager which will show you exactly what
is illegal (marked in red) about your partition table(s), and lead
I have been struggling with getting two linux's (Mandrake 8.1 RH 5.1) set
up on my machine and have been back and forth so many times on the
partitioning of this drive that apparently I filled up the partition table
or something ... it won't let me finish any partitioning now ...when I try
to go
hi db
it seems that your partition table is already fscked
up ... i would suggest *really* zapping the boot
sector (usually sector 1) that contains partition and
booting info about your disk.
to delete info on your boot sector as if your disk is
new, boot on rescue mode:
dd if=/dev/zero
db wrote:
I have been struggling with getting two linux's (Mandrake 8.1 RH 5.1) set
up on my machine and have been back and forth so many times on the
partitioning of this drive that apparently I filled up the partition table
or something ... it won't let me finish any partitioning now
Use fdisk to check the partitions. On a recent install of 8.2, I slid
the slider for disk size in diskdrake to the far right (allocate all
disk space) and ended up with a partition that went past the end of the
disk. Was the devils job fixing it. Did not think it was a Mandrake
problem at the
Bill Kenworthy wrote:
Use fdisk to check the partitions. On a recent install of 8.2, I slid
the slider for disk size in diskdrake to the far right (allocate all
disk space) and ended up with a partition that went past the end of the
disk. Was the devils job fixing it.
A valuable tip is
I'm using discdrake from Mandrake 8.1. I'm trying to re-partition the drive
properly to add Mandrake and RedHat 5.1 (for a deadended legacy app.) along
with the win98 that is already loaded. I think 5.1 has to be on primary
along with windows. Not sure what I did wrong ... maybe I tried to
hi db
Hi Dianne!
it seems that your partition table is already fscked
up ... i would suggest *really* zapping the boot
sector (usually sector 1) that contains partition and
booting info about your disk.
to delete info on your boot sector as if your disk is
new, boot on rescue mode:
Le Vendredi 26 Avril 2002 15:43, vous avez écrit :
Bill Kenworthy wrote:
I don't consider diskdrake mature enough to trust yet - this
experience confirms that. I still will not use any partitioning tool
but Partition Magic, despite its few problems. The Ranish Partition
So do I... Once,
hi dan
ok, now that you said you have an ATA100, the
situation is different. i think for such hard disk
controllers, you need to do a reverse detection. its
important that your regular ide controllers are
detected as hda-hdd and that your ATA controllers are
detected as hde-hdh then you install
Dianne Marie Montesa wrote:
hi db
it seems that your partition table is already fscked
up ... i would suggest *really* zapping the boot
sector (usually sector 1) that contains partition and
booting info about your disk.
to delete info on your boot sector as if your disk is
new, boot on
Sorry Dianne that I led you to believe the machine has ATA controllers. It
doesn't. We just bought a new large drive to install these mulitple OS's
on: a WD ATA 100 40g drive. The machine is a Dell Dimension XPS T-450
PIII. The Dell website shows the controllers to be EIDE. The data cables
Hi Civileme!
I believe I did both! :(
I was trying tomake the linux 8.1 /root be a ext3 type as suggested and
chose extended 0x85 under preferences. And the first time I tried to
format the various partitions with diskdrake, it wouldn't accept 2 swaps so
I thought making one of them primary
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I didn't know this Ranish Partition Manager... do you recommand it ?
What are these problems with PM ? When creating Linux partitions or when
resizing ?
All those 1xx numbered problems with the partition table where PM
lights up that disk in yellow and gives up.
I'm not sure who is following this string but I have apparently fouled up
the boot sector of the partition table while partitioning with Mandrake
8.1's Diskdrake and cannot procede with adding Mandrake 8.1 and Redhat 5.1
partitions my HD which presently contains a windows98 partition. (40G, ATA
1) Can you delete all of the partitions except the first ( windows C: ) and
then commit the changes to disk or will that fail also ? You can always abort
the install and then restart the install later.
2) During the install, can you use one of the other vitual consoles to execute
the fdisk
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