Just wanted to note something
Windows NT and Windows 2000 will allow you to create up to 4 primary
partitions on a single drive. This isn't supported by DOS fdisk either,
yet no one claims that it needs work.
Personally, I think thatdiskdrake is functioning properly.
Thanks
> If you are installing linux on a clean hard drive, Disk Drake may be okay.
> If you are installing linux on a system with windows on it, like a lot of
> people will be, and are trying to create a linux partition out of unused
> space on the drive, sorry, Mandrake, but someone needs to work on this.
>
> I have found that various versions of Disk Drake will create partition
> errors, anything from minor errors that don't seem to affect the drive to
> real goofball errors on some cooker versions. Whatever you do, don't create
> a linux "primary" partition using Disk Drake. Disk Drake doesn't resize the
> extended Dos partition that the dos fdisk originally set up. Instead, it
> creates linux partitions in the extended Dos partition. This kind of
> bothers me. Shouldn't the linux partition be created as totally separate
> from the Dos partition? "Extended" seems to be the default choice in Disk
> Drake. If you try to create a "primary" linux partition in the extended Dos
> partition, you'll end up with a truly goofed-up partition table. I fixed
> this with a third party program called Partition Commander but was freaked
> for a short while, thinking I'd lost everything. It is safer to use
> something like Partition Commander to set up the linux partitions, and then
> install linux. You can change the default file system in the linux
> partition to reiserfs when you install linux.
>
> If you install linux as a secondary os on a laptop, careful, because you
> might not even be able to boot from a floppy if things go wrong. There is
> no bios setup in the Sony VAIO laptop I have, it seems to be a stupid
> windows program! Grub got stuck and wouldn't boot anything, just displayed
> a "grub" on the screen, even though I'd set the stupid windows Bios
> configuration to boot CD-floppy-hard disk in that order. The only way to
> fix this was to stick in the linux installation cd and reinstall or upgrade
> without selecting files so you can redo grub or whatever.
>
> I really think the Mandrake versions of linux are great -- the only ones
> that were ever easy to install and use -- and I hate to have to rely on
> third party software to fix things, but that's just the way it is.
> Partition Commander is pretty cheap (I picked one up for about $30).
>
>
There's plenty of semicolons to go around
