Simon, 30sep99
When you installed the special driver you created new rules for your
harddisk environment. Without knowing the special driver there is not
much of a discussion.
You have no problem installing Linux?
The alternate way is NOT to install the special driver.
(The instructions with the DiskManager/ special driver are for the Windows
environment. It does not necessarily apply to Linux.)
Leave the disk blank. Do not partition it.
Or partition only the part you need for Windows. Do not create an EXTENDED
partition at this point.
Leave the remainder of the disk un-partitioned.
When you install Linux from CDROM you will get the harddisk partitioner of
Linux.
Same name 'fdisk' but different from Windows-fdisk.
See what fdisk-linux can do for you. The Windows-rules are replaced by
Linux rules.
Linux has less restrictions.
Linux might well partition drives over 8GB. I had no problems with my 8.6GB
SeaGate. (Windows had no problems with it either.)
>From Linux you can access Window partitions as if they were Linux.
If you mount the Window-drives at startup, Linux 'adopts' the mounted
Window-drives as it's own.
This is not all good news: If you do an 'updatedb' Linux will also scan the
Windows drives and it takes equally longer.
I prefer not to mount at startup. Instead I can activate (mount) a
Windows-drive
any time I need to. With just a few keystrokes.
If Windows (the partition with the WINDOWS directory on it) is on a separate
drive, the drive will go to sleep (powered-down till called).
Windows does not read Linux partitions.
>I have simply used the utility called Disk Manager which is the tool provided
>by Quantum that can partition a HD greater than 8gigd for my old P200 pro
(Dell
>Dimension). Per quantum docs, this is the only utility that can do the
work for
>machines with bios that can't support HD bigger than 8gigs.
>
>This utility did to following:
>- Told me if the bios is compatible with the hd,
>- In my case, not compatible, so it told me to move it from hdc to hdb , which
>I did,
>- Re-Started Win98 and I have been ask if it could install a special driver
>which would enable >8gigs disks connection. Done
>- Opened up an interface to partition with either FAT16 or FAT32.
>- I choosed FAT32 (for all) to make partition greater than 2gigs.
>- Created 4 partitions : ~ 6gigs - 3gigs - 3gigs - 1gig
>-Restarted windows.
>-Explorer than ended up with 5 new drives:
>D: (unreadable) <--- strange isn't it ?
>E: (6gigs)
>F: (3gigs)
>G: (1gig)
>H: (3gigs)
>
>Bear in mind that the only objective is to have partitions larger than FAT16
>-2gigs limit and also being able to READ-WRITE to these partitions when
running
>Win98 and Linux ......
>So if other partitioning solutions can be applied, I am flexible.
>
>Thanks again !
>
>
>
>Ramana Tadepalli wrote:
>
>> the hd brand does not matter
>> send me info about what you did with the win partitioning and in what order
>> did you do so. I couldn't get a clear idea. I can help you if I have some
>> more info
>>
>> Simon Gendreau wrote:
>>
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