Re: [newbie] 9.1 does not work

2003-03-29 Thread Joeb
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:57:26 - QingHua Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I downloaded 3 cds of Mandrake 9.1 yesterday, but when I try to install it this morning I find it can not resize my hard drive, which is a fujitsu MHR2030AT all in NTFS with a size of 27.9 GB. (the

[newbie] 9.1 does not work

2003-03-28 Thread QingHua Wang
Hi there, I downloaded 3 cds of Mandrake 9.1 yesterday, but when I try to install it this morning I find it can not resize my hard drive, which is a fujitsu MHR2030AT all in NTFS with a size of 27.9 GB. (the intsller just said it's not resizeable) Can anyone please give some pointers to fix it?

Re: [newbie] 9.1 does not work

2003-03-28 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 23:57, QingHua Wang wrote: Hi there, I downloaded 3 cds of Mandrake 9.1 yesterday, but when I try to install it this morning I find it can not resize my hard drive, which is a fujitsu MHR2030AT all in NTFS with a size of 27.9 GB. (the intsller just said it's not

Re: [newbie] 9.1 does not work

2003-03-28 Thread eric huff
Man i hate outlook. Why doesn't reply all reply to all?!? Anyway, on page 1 of chapter 1 of the startup guide, there is a warning about this (if you have 2000, NT or XP): NTFS Partitions. Windows 2000 , NT or XP users should be very careful not to resize NTFS partitions with GNU/Linux . This

Fw: [newbie] 9.1 does not work

2003-03-28 Thread eric huff
I think this was meant to go to the list. (name removed in case it wasn't) However, 9.1 purports to resize NTFS Partitions (via diskdrake and during install) just fine, and many have reported it doing this task flawlessly. So, perhaps something is corrupt on your NTFS partition, or one would

Re: [newbie] 9.1 does not work

2003-03-28 Thread Greg
Hi Everyone I have a HP Pavilion ze 1230 laptop I would like to install mdk 9.0 on it with xp ( have to keep xp for work ) I helped my bother in law install it on his laptop and we lost xp and had to start over I would like to get it right the first time help me please thanks greg

Re: [newbie] 9.1 does not work

2003-03-28 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 02:46, qhwang wrote: Is the NTFS partition setup as a BASIC DISK or a DYNAMIC DISK? My laptop has this only one hard disk. Since I wait for a long time to install Mandrake or some other linux within the NTFS partition, there are around 20 GB free space. I don't want