JoeHill wrote:
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.
Yes, I got rid of the FAT32 partitions completely, so it was listed as empty space. This was the situation which MK wouldn't accept.
I went back into XP and created an unformatted unassigned partition on that disk space, and I had the same problem as the initial time around - Linux created its choice of partitions and ran fine, but the Lilo Windows option crashed. So I've had to install XP *again*, hence my 3am posting :-/
As far as I can see, MK 10 setup gives you no choice whatsoever about what to do with the boot loader, so the last-resort suggestion in another email on this list of putting it on a floppy isn't possible. I'm beginning to wonder if it's a particular fault with MK 10 - I'd try an earlier version, but I was so pleased to see 10 recognised my Alcatel USB modem....
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