On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:15:34 +0100 Owain Sutton disseminated the following:
> Ho-hum....now Mandrake claims that the FAT is corrupted, and won't do > any partitioning without wiping the lot. Windows is still OK, though. > Any more ideas? Did you get rid of the FAT32 partitions (3 and 4) in XP? The thing is to do the Mandrake install on completely unformatted, unpartitioned space. To be honest, I've never seen it act like this, Mandrake is well known for being ideal in a dual boot situation :-\ Once you've wiped the empty FAT32 partitions, do the Mandrake install, but this time do 'custom disk partitioning'. Create an Ext3 partition, mount it on /, make it about 3 or 4 GB or so. Then create a swap partition, should show up in yellow, leave the default size. Now create another partition (Ext3 again), say a couple of GB or whatever you have, and make the mount point /home. That should be all you need, see if it still chokes. -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Rule #2 (John Gilmore): "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
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