On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 19:55:34 +0100
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Go ahead and save yourself the money, even though I have never had the
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> slightest problem with either, you certainly don't need to shell out
> cash unless you want to.
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> Though there are some differences. For one thing diskdrake doesn't
> seem to be able to check your hard drive for bad areas and mark them,
> something which is quite useful if your hard drive is either brand new
>
> or well used old one. PM does a superb job in marking bad areas.
> Access is another problem, diskdrake is less user friendly than PM.
> One thing PM does not do is any of the latest file systems like ext3,
> XFS and Reiser. You can do anything you like in FAT32, NTFS and Ext2.
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> with PM.
>
> PM is an excellent utility, but you don't absolutely need it.
> John
Personally I also like PM.
I always begin with a bare drive and boot the system with the PM boot
disk.
I then create however many partitions that I want, normally I will
create all as fat32.
Install 2k, you can select to which partition you wish it to install and
also format it as NTFS.
Install linux, using diskdrake only to format my already created
partitions.
But as said you do not have to have PM.
Boot your linux disk and use diskdrake to create all you partitions
remembering to create at least 1 fat32 for 2k.
Complete the formatting then exit the linux installation and install 2k
then install linux.
I still do not 'trust' diskdrake to handle NTFS which is why I would do
the above.
If you are going to install 2k as fat32 then you can simply install 2k
and use diskdrake to resize it and create your linux partitions during
the mandrake install.
The #1 most important thing about partitioning is that once you have
used 1 program to partition a drive NEVER use a second program to change
those partitions or you will end up royally f___ing up your partition
table.
Charles
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