On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 02:08, Sean Goh wrote: > Hi there, > I'm having problems installing M8.2 over WinXP. I have a 20GB > harddisk and i partitioned it into 3. C: takes 5GB and D: takes 7GB. The > rest i left it for Mandrake. After installing WinXP using NTFS > filesystem, i booted M8.2 and ran the setup program. The problem came in > when it couldn't detect the partitions or something. > "An error occured. Ask_before_blanking: unknown partition table format." > Anyone knows how to solve this problem? > > Regards, > Sean > > I'm installing on a laptop 900MHZ with 384 MB RAM and GeForce2. Should > have met all the requirements of M8.2
Having to deal with dual-boot systems for clients all the time, I've stuck to a scheme I've used since the days of OS/2 - I create (at least) two partitions. First partition is left blank and unformatted. Second partition gets formatted with DOS (or whatever) and Windows is installed. After Windows is installed, then OS/2 (or linux) is installed on the first partition (of course, it's re-partitioned so that you have a /boot, an / and a swap partition) and lilo is setup to recognize both OS's - and used as the primary boot menu. Being that linux "lives" below the 1024th cylinder, it generally is a happy camper (and gets the faster parts of the disk). Winblows, er, Windows gets the rest as it ain't quite as picky... -- Wed Nov 27 07:15:01 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. -------------------------------- | __ __ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | ;"""/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU -------------------------------- Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.
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