At 09:46 AM 2/5/03 +0100, Andrew Langdon-Davies wrote:
Above is returned by fdisk (more or less; I am at a different machine and can't remember exactly). Presumably, this is why trying to install Mandrake 9.0 failed repeatedly at the bootloader stage (with no way out of the installation program) and eventually trashed the partition table (now rebuilt).Fragmentary error reports with half-remembered ("more or less") error messages are very hard to interpret. I suggest you try the install again, and this time write down exactly what fdisk says, as well as what fdisk is trying to do when it says it. Certainly in principle, setting up a multi-boot system with Windows and Linux is possible.
Q1: Am I right?
Q2: Can I correct the situation? (With parted, e.g.)
Q3: Otherwise, how else can I install Mandrake without losing the quaint little Win98 system my girlfriend needs for work?
The present setup is:
first hd 2.4 G, one Win 98 partition, could be resized to 1 G to make room for Mandrake;
second hd 600M, probably for additional Win progs or storage.
fdisk can't make partitions, though, on a disk where the existing partitions fill all the space, so you will have to make room (resize the Win98 partition as you say) before running fdisk. This also makes me suspect you've left out important details, if you did manage to get as far as a bootloader install before failing.
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