A few more issues:
NT 4 does not recognize the FAT32 fs, only FAT16 & NTFS, so if your active
primary partition is FAT 32 The NT bootloader will fail. Also If you use
FAT32 or NTFS on a 95/nt dual boot, NT won't recognize FAT32 vols. & win95
wont recognize any NTFS (win95 will change the drive letters).
Windows 95/98 assumes that it is *only* os on your machine, so always
install it first.
To learn how to hack the NTLDR (NT boot loader) and get a neat "Linux2.2.x"
menu in it goto
http://www.dorsai.org/~dcl/publications/NTLDR_Hacking/
I tried to install Solaris 8 beta, but it failed to recognize my logical
drives (same problem with FreeBSD/OPenBSD). I have 2 logical drives in my
4gb extended partition, I had to delete one and make it a Primary partition
for these Os's to recognize.Ultimately the Solaris install failed with these
last words..."Too many fdisk partitions".
Mandrake Linux 7.0 recognizes Multiple Pri & Dos-logical partitions very
well, (so does Suze, but rest of Suze's install sucks, no option to
individually select packages!). Mandrake even shows the Dos drive letter
with the disk names *e.g hda1 (c drive in dos)*. It even allows to set any
filesystem you want(like cfdisk does).
RedHat on the other hand refuses to read more than one Primary partition, it
gives a partition table corrupt message if you have more than one primary
partition (that's how I ended up with Mandrake)
Regards
MANI
-----Original Message-----
From: Naresh Narang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 9:25 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [linux-delhi] Partition/Win95 problem
I have a similar configuration but Hard disk sizes are less:
Disk 1: (6GB)
1 GB Linux
1.5 GB NT
3.5 GB Win95 (500 MB Primary dos, 3GB Extended)
Disk 2: (270MB)
200 MB Linux Swap
70 MB Win95 Extended
Procedure Followed:
First install Win95 in 500 MB or so in Fat16, then make extended
partition in Fat32. Then install NT and Linux in the last. You will need
another disk of may be smaller capacity, since it is not possible to create
more than 4 partitions in x86 machines. (BIOS limit?). Solaris on x86 allows
multiple logical partitions to be created within a single Non-Dos Hard disk
Partition! :)
Regards,
NKN
>From: Raju Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [linux-delhi] Partition/Win95 problem
>Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 16:17:09 +0530 (IST)
>
>Hi,
>
>I have the following disk partition setup:
>
> hda1 2G Linux
> hda2 2G NT with Windows95 bootloader on boot record
> hda3 2G '95
> hda rest (13G) free
>
>When I boot Winduhs it loads the boot loader from hda2 (C:) and that
>boots Winduhs from hda3 (D:). Winduhs is installed on D: (hda3).
>
>However, if I make an extended partition on the rest of the disk, the
>Winduhs boot fails... C: is readable, but it refuses to access D: with
>``unreadable media byte'' and drops me into a MS-DUH prompt.
>
>Removing the extended partition fixes the problem... Winduhs boots
>normally again and D: is accessible. Why should making an extended
>partition make '95 complain about ``unreadable media byte''s on
>existing partitions?
>
>Anyone seen anything like this? Know a solution? I'd sure like to
>use some of the remaining 13GB in the disk for constructive purposes!
>
>Regards,
>
>-- Raju
>
>P.S. in case you're wondering about the NT, I installed that first on
>C: and then installed '95 on D: . Of course, MS products are
>completely incompatible with each other, so '95 overwrote NT's boot
>sector and now I can't boot NT at all!
>
>P.P.S. I have legal copies of all these softwares :-)
>
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