I've just joined this list, so apologies if this has been brought up before
(couldn't find it in the digests ...).
There _have_ been a few posts about problems with 7.1 installs. I had a
couple myself, which I thought were pretty serious:
I installed over several partitions, including hda6, hda7 (two new
extended partitions within hda3 - hda6=/boot and hda7=/tmp) I also
asked it to set up two partitions on hdb - / and /home/. This is what
it did:
The installer changed hda3 (extended partition containing hda6, 7,
and windows drive 'D:') to type 85 'Linux Extended')
I fixed this by changing the partition type to 'extended' (type 5) with
linux fdisk, which fixed things again, but it had me worried for a while,
because Windows didn't even recognise the existence of its
poor old drive 'D:', where I keep all my (office) work.
Bad point 2: The installer set up hdb1 '/',(1 to 15453 were the cylinder or
block numbers)
hdb2 (16454 to 1052352 as Linux extended)
hdb5 '/home', (16454 to 2226136)
This meant that hdb5 was bigger than the extended partition it
was in. Mandrake accessed it without complaint, but Partition
Magic and fdisk weren't happy. I copied everything from /home to
/tmp and made a new partition hdb2 after getting rid of hdb2 & 5
and put it all back again after creating a new hdb2 as a primary
partition and reformatting it.
I don't have a problem with any of this now, it's all working nicely,
but there have been a couple of non-specific mentions of partition
problems and I thought this might be helpful. (I wondered if there
was a problem with gnu parted in ther version used by the installer?)
Maybe something like this is behind some of the less positive comments I've
seen?
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