Charlie said:
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 04:35 am, many eyes viewed David B. Carter's words:-
I was fooling around the other day, and I reinstalled Windows 2000 Pro
and
Mandrake 9.2 in a dual-boot setup. I have a secondary 6GB hard drive
that
I wanted to see if I could partition and format as a
Alaa The Great said:
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David B. Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was fooling around the other day, and I reinstalled Windows 2000 Pro
and Mandrake 9.2 in a dual-boot setup. I have a secondary 6GB hard
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 11:35 pm, David B. Carter wrote:
I was fooling around the other day, and I reinstalled Windows 2000 Pro and
Mandrake 9.2 in a dual-boot setup. I have a secondary 6GB hard drive that
I wanted to see if I could partition and format as a single FAT32
partition that could
Bryan Phinney said:
David, the act of creating a mount point and mounting a partition involves
two
separate things. First, you create an actual mount point directory off of
root. That directory is there regardless of whether the partition is
mounted
or not. Second, you create an fstab
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:30 am, many eyes viewed David B. Carter's words:-
Now, I'm playing again. I opened DiskDrake, and (I thought) deleted the
/winshare partition, reformatted using ext3 and mounted it as
/var/servers
for putting my FTP and WWW stuff. Now, when I restart, I have a
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David B. Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
its normal for the directory to remain even after you remove the
partition, the directory where you mount partitions is stored at the
parent partition (on the
I was fooling around the other day, and I reinstalled Windows 2000 Pro and
Mandrake 9.2 in a dual-boot setup. I have a secondary 6GB hard drive that
I wanted to see if I could partition and format as a single FAT32
partition that could be read/written by both OS's. It worked! In MDK 9.2,
it is
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David B. Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was fooling around the other day, and I reinstalled Windows 2000 Pro
and Mandrake 9.2 in a dual-boot setup. I have a secondary 6GB hard
drive that I wanted to see
Tom Brinkman wrote:
Ok, if I understand what you want booting the first CD an
choosing install should do it. You're runnin from the CD,
Yes I know, but it's an awful pain method . You have to bump along all
that preamble to get to diskdrake and crash out to exit.
Not really user
John,
Can't you use one of the small distro's/linux toolboxes which run in
memory to do this?
Tony.
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From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 12:25 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] diskdrake
Tom Brinkman wrote
Tony S. Sykes wrote:
John,
Can't you use one of the small distro's/linux toolboxes which run in
memory to do this?
Tony.
Have you anything in particular in mind.
I'm familiar with Gentoo, but I'm not able to find everything I want on it.
requirements ,
partimage,
diskdrake,
a good modern
: [newbie] diskdrake
Tony S. Sykes wrote:
John,
Can't you use one of the small distro's/linux toolboxes which run in
memory to do this?
Tony.
Have you anything in particular in mind.
I'm familiar with Gentoo, but I'm not able to find everything I want on
it.
requirements ,
partimage
What package installs diskdrake ?
John
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 03:24, John Richard Smith wrote:
What package installs diskdrake ?
[root]default# which diskdrake
/usr/sbin/diskdrake
[root]default# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/sbin/diskdrake
drakxtools-newt-9.2-16mdk
Sharrea
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On Wednesday 22 October 2003 09:24 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
What package installs diskdrake ?
John
drakxtools-newt
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Sharrea Day wrote:
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 03:24, John Richard Smith wrote:
What package installs diskdrake ?
[root]default# which diskdrake
/usr/sbin/diskdrake
[root]default# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/sbin/diskdrake
drakxtools-newt-9.2-16mdk
Sharrea
Hey that's a useful little command
Tom Brinkman wrote:
How 'bout booting the 1st CD and choosing 'upgrade'? Not sure I
under stand your problem. Is the system unbootable? If it's
bootable you can 'urpmi diskdrake' or use rpmdrake to install it.
If it not, then you'll probly have to choose 'install' and fix your
partitions.
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 06:44 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Tom Brinkman wrote:
How 'bout booting the 1st CD and choosing 'upgrade'? Not
sure I under stand your problem. Is the system unbootable? If
it's bootable you can 'urpmi diskdrake' or use rpmdrake to
install it. If it
Hello,
I've been trying to create an new partition on my only hard drive. According
to the directions, I need to unmount the partition, but clicking unmount in
DiskDrake has no effect. 'umount /dev/hsa6' tells me that the device is busy.
How do I procede?
Jim
Want to buy
On Thursday 24 Jul 2003 8:32 am, James Henry Maiewski wrote:
Hello,
I've been trying to create an new partition on my only hard drive.
According to the directions, I need to unmount the partition, but clicking
unmount in DiskDrake has no effect. 'umount /dev/hsa6' tells me that the
Sharrea wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:32, James Henry Maiewski wrote:
Hello,
I've been trying to create an new partition on my only hard drive.
According to the directions, I need to unmount the partition, but
clicking unmount in DiskDrake has no effect. 'umount /dev/hsa6' tells
me that the
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 17:19, Robin Turner wrote:
Sharrea wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:32, James Henry Maiewski wrote:
Hello,
I've been trying to create an new partition on my only hard drive.
According to the directions, I need to unmount the partition, but
clicking unmount in
thanks dennis for help,i'll see you.
How do you connect to the internet? Do you use a 56k modem or are you on cable
modem? Or do you use a broadband telephone modem like your phone company
would connect you?
If you use a local area network that more than one computer connects through
then
paul,
i need make a choose with diskdrake install to configure internet-network
normal moden connection?
ISDN CONECTION?
ADSL CONNECTION?
LAN CONNECTION?
I don't know how connection?
thanks for help.
rhp.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to
On Friday 30 August 2002 01:50 pm, rhp.mac wrote:
paul,
i need make a choose with diskdrake install to configure internet-network
normal moden connection?
ISDN CONECTION?
ADSL CONNECTION?
LAN CONNECTION?
I don't know how connection?
thanks for help.
rhp.
How do you connect to the
Just surfing around various broads, trying to answer a previous post. I came
across that DiskDrake cannot format ntfs partitions(Laptop was winXP on a
ntfs partition) without corruption. I think this explains my inability to
succesfully install Mandrake. Anyone have any more information, or a
I think that Linux doesn't support ntfs partitions, I am not sure.
Anyway, if you want to resize your ntfs partition to make possible
installing mandrake, you will need something like partition magic, but
there is partition star as well, a shareware program, you can use it for
30 days.
Hope I
From what I have heard Partition Magic 7.0 is availible. Hopefully this is
shareware. If not i'll scream untill I get mandrake running heh.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
PMagic isnt sharewhere. You can download a 'demo' from their site that
will show you what the app will do if you pay them. But you cannot make
write any changes to your partition table.
If you use the iMesh file sharing program, you can do a search for
partition magic and can usually find one
heh, ahh the magic of the internet, people are just so sharing ::grins::
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
you can find it on morpheus too. but WAY slower..
On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 22:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
heh, ahh the magic of the internet, people are just so sharing ::grins::
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
umm... how about...
... forget the broads... and check out the boards... ?
sorry, couldn't resist ;)
seriusly now... I don't know anything about ntfs. Hopefully someone else can
help.
skinky
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On Monday 11 February 2002 13:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just
On Monday 11 February 2002 01:41 pm, you wrote:
Just surfing around various broads, trying to answer a
previous post. I came across that DiskDrake cannot format ntfs
partitions(Laptop was winXP on a ntfs partition) without
corruption. I think this explains my inability to successfully
Barbara Pfieffer wrote:
But, the problem is, the partition I added is my /home partition. I'm
afraid I'll lose it, following your instructions.
Here's fdisk p output and my df. Will I lose my /home partition?
Barbara
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2431 cylinders
Units =
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 17:03:26 -0400
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In reply to Miark's words, written Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:57:34 -0600
Does DiskDrake resize ext2 and/or Reiser partitions?
Miark
I am not sure if it can resize non-destructively. For resizing (at least for
ext2) you can
Does DiskDrake resize ext2 and/or Reiser partitions?
Miark
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On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:57:34 -0600, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does DiskDrake resize ext2 and/or Reiser partitions?
Miark
For ext2: No, you will have to use something like Partition Magic to do this.
For ReiserFS: http://www.namesys.com/rsz.html
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Hello, List.
Please forgive this newbie 's question :)
I installed LM 8.0 Standard edition, but I just can't find diskdrake which
let you modify partitions. I wonder if the manual misprint something or it
only apply to the complete edition.
Thanks for reading.
On Friday 08 June 2001 12:20, you wrote:
Hello, List.
Please forgive this newbie 's question :)
I installed LM 8.0 Standard edition, but I just can't find diskdrake which
let you modify partitions. I wonder if the manual misprint something or
it only apply to the complete edition.
Thanks
On Friday 08 June 2001 09:41 pm, you wrote:
On Friday 08 June 2001 12:20, you wrote:
Hello, List.
Please forgive this newbie 's question :)
I installed LM 8.0 Standard edition, but I just can't find diskdrake
which let you modify partitions. I wonder if the manual misprint
something
I seem to recall someone some time ago explaining that Partition Magic/System
Commander etc use a "different" method for creating partitions and partition
types, I can't be any more explicit because I don't understand it any more
than that.
However, I had a similar problem with a HD that had
I'm finding it difficult to believe nobody has an opinion on this
-- heck, nobody's even flamed me for a clueless newbie :)
I recently installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 on a machine that already
had a single Windows Me partition on a 60G IBM hard drive.
Although I'd already purchased a
I have PM 3 which is old and I see everything. Are you sure you using it
correctly?
Yeah. And I was able to manage my Windows partitions just
fine.
+ you got 60G's isn't that enough for 2 OS's
Heck, that's enough for several more. I'd just like to be
able to manage the Gnu/Linux
?
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From: "Mark Shaw" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 9:48 AM
Subject: RE: [newbie] DiskDrake w/ PartitionMagic
I have PM 3 which is old and I see everything. Are you sure you using it
correctly?
Yeah. And I was able to manage
I recently installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 on a machine that already
had a single Windows Me partition on a 60G IBM hard drive.
Although I'd already purchased a copy of PartitionMagic (v. 6.0)
I wanted to put Mandrake through its paces, so I used DiskDrake
to reduce the size of the FAT32 partition
On Monday 02 April 2001 05:08, you wrote:
When I click on the Resize button in DiskDrake (after entering expert
mode)
during the installation of Mandrake 7.2, I get the following message:
"this partition is not resizable".
I have a single windows (win98) FAT32 partition that takes up the
When I click on the Resize button in DiskDrake
(after entering expert mode) during the installation of Mandrake 7.2, I get the
followingmessage: "this partition is not resizable".
I have a single windows (win98) FAT32 partition
that takes up the entire disk (19GB). I've run the windows
hi... do i understand you correctly here? the drive is one large fat partition, and
you are trying to resize that partition without losing the data on it? i don't think
diskdrake can do this, without data lose that is. tho i could be wrong. diskdrake is
an impressive tool -- however i
use FIPS.
it will be needed to run in dos, but it is quite easy to use :-)
AGM
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Barb
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 6:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Diskdrake question
I need to create another partition. When I run Diskdrake from KDE, it
doesn't give me
I've got some empty space next to my Linux partition, and I'd like for Linux to
have it all! Is DiskDrake supposed to be able to resize a partition without
loss of data?
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Lane
Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
Using Linux to get where I want to go...
I have a question about diskdrake... Is it a
non-destructive partitioner or am I gonna have to buy
partitionmagic?
-Jamie
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From:
Jamie Richard
(Gamestation)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 10:10
PM
Subject: [newbie] DiskDrake
Question
I have a question about diskdrake... Is it a
non-destructive partitioner or am I gonna have to buy
So I can install linux along with windows without
destroying my data on the FAT32 partitions?
-Jamie
So I can install linux along with windows without
destroying my data on the FAT32 partitions?
Yes, this does work. I've tried it once with 7.0
successfully. I allowed DiskDrake to resize an 8 GB
partition down to 2 GB. I don't know if I'd try it
without a good backup, though.
MB
://www.evolnick.com
- Original Message -
From: Jamie Richard (Gamestation)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 10:10 PM
Subject: [newbie] DiskDrake Question
I have a question about diskdrake... Is it a
non-destructive partitioner or am I
I've read about DiskDrake before, but it did mention certain bugs that
worry me: If a bug messes up an operation, my disk is toast.
How reliable is it now? I'd prefer to adjust all my partitions while
in Linux, but if forced I can flip to DOS mode and use PartitionMagic
to take care of
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