But ... at least 2 months after the dual-boot installation ..
the E: and F: did show up.They did the vanishing act only
after my friend (who I said can be trusted) did his.
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:15:28PM +0530, shyamk @ eth . net wrote:
> > I use a dual-boot Win98 - RH Linux machine , on a LAN of Win-
> > doze machines. When my machine was booted to Win98, my friend
> > whom I can trust, copied a folder into my machine
>
> Do we understand that your box was a network-neighbourhood type
> of link, and running Win-9x when he transferred the folder ?
Yes it was.
> his machine runs the latest version of Norton Anti-Virus 2000
> > .. I mean that he downloads the latest updates). We subseque-
> > ntly shutdown our machines, and packed off for the day. The
> > next morning when we switched on my box , only the Win drives
> > C: and D: can be seen. E: and F: are missing !
>
> IOW, you are booting normally into Win-9x ? How do you go to
> Linux ? Through loadlin or boot floppies ? If LILO is installed
> on MBR it implies that you have defaulted to Win-9x as the main
> OS. If LILO is on MBR, and the thing boots, there is no boot
> sector virus.
>
> >
> > I boot to Linux and cfdisk-ed and got the following error
> > message from cfdisk :
> >
> > FATAL ERROR : Bad Logical partition 9: Partition ends before
> > sector 0. Press any key to exit cfdisk ....
> >
>
> To me this appears to be an error of Extended-logical parti-
> tion boundary (conflict) on an 0F type of extended partition,
> induced by inappropriate write action ... but the information
> furnished is inadequate to confirm.
>
> Please post an output of fdisk -l ... partitioning utils like
> cfdisk and disk-druid, and inadequate for such tasks.
>
> This is very unlikely to be a boot sector virus problem. The
> actual virus is M$ itself in leaving so many weaknesses in
> its basic partitioning, installation .... and you name it !
>
> Hope this re-assures you.
>
> Bish
>
> PS: Please note avoid a name like this in your mail
> "shyamk @ eth . net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. It may
> cause problems ... The @ sign is reserved when
> coming to mailing conventions. Avoid using this
> character in the name string... This is BASICS!
> If some mailer strips the quotes ... it would
> be trouble !
>
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> Sub : User floppy mount LOST #009
>
> NOT RECOMMENDED for a multiuser system. For a stand-alone box
> add to /etc/fstab, (where /floppy is your mount point). Then,
> $mount /floppy ... as an user will do the trick ...
>
> /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,nosuid,nodev,noauto,user 0 0
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