John Richard Smith wrote: \> I hope you don't mind me not being able to answer your question, but > I'm curious what is going on here. > Question: Where did you read this table, in linux fdisk ? , Dos fdisk ? > Partition > Magic ?
Used cfdisk. But Linux fdisk shows the same > I note according to this table you have 4 Primary and 3 logical > partitions.Nothing > wrong in that, but I have always gone 1 Primary, 1Extended, divided into > any > number of logicals, and I just wonder whether this may have a bearing upon > your question. > When you first made your partitions for W Me , it must of been after > creating > some of these partitions because , you have a linux partition as your hda1. No: hda1 is Windows ME, see line below > 1 Primary 433755 9622934 0 9189180 Win95 FAT32 (LBA) (0C) Boot (80) > nothing wrong with that , but again I'm curious here. > I'm less than sure what you are installing. You have Windblows Me, > Linux 8.0 and Linux8.2, and so you are tripple booting already, and you > would like to overwrite presumeably M8.0 with Redhat(V ?). I have Win ME and LM 8.2 (updated from LM 8.0). But indeed I would like to overwrite LM8.2 with RH, not that I dislike LM, but I need RH for some ``supported'' packages (looks like Win!!) > I'm interested to install Redhat myself sometime, and so I am curious > as to how you get on. > I like to do all my partitioning with just one tool, currently for me > that is > Partition Magic V7 , that is only because of some limitations of > diskdrake which is fine otherwise. > I'm purely guessing but my first thoughts are that RH doesn't like, for > some reason, your partition table and wants you to reorder it somehow. > Is hda1 ( 3 primary) your /boot partition ? hda1 is Win Me had3 is /boot indeed and lies in the first 433754 sectors. Regarding the answer of Civileme: So Mandrake allows that. OK. But is there a way now to ``fix'' this, or do I have to live along with this? Or should I reinstall Linux Mandrake setting hda4 as Logical? Marc
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