On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 03:04, SnapafunFrank wrote: > OK. You are teaching me something here but I haven't quite nailed it yet. > > Re partitions:] > > /dev/hda1 * 1 125 1004031 83 Linux > /dev/hda2 126 2937 22587390 85 Linux extended > /dev/hda3 2938 4434 12024652+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda4 4435 4870 3502170 6 FAT16 > /dev/hda5 126 250 1004031 83 Linux > /dev/hda6 251 1496 10008463+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda7 1497 1559 506016 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda8 1560 2805 10008463+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda9 2806 2937 1060258+ 83 Linux > > and: > > /dev/hdb1 * 1 1827 14675346 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/hdb2 1828 1829 16065 83 Linux > /dev/hdb3 1830 2491 5317515 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/hdb5 1830 1841 96358+ 83 Linux > /dev/hdb6 1842 1853 96358+ 83 Linux > /dev/hdb7 1854 2263 3293293+ 83 Linux > /dev/hdb8 2264 2295 257008+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hdb9 2296 2491 1574338+ 83 Linux > > Now I'm lost with the "non-FAT' statement. As you can see I have FAT on > both HDDs so your reply suggested that I needed to configure things?
No, that's not what he was saying. He was just saying that the drive letter C will ONLY be assigned to partitions that winblows stuff understands, and that happens to be restricted to winblows partitions and not non-dos or non-ntfs stuff. Technically you can have a fat anywhere you like. I personally would have done a type "c" which is Win95 FAT32 in LBA mode. Most of the time that's what win98 chooses for itself. The file system is a little faster and allows for larger partitions. > I > do recall that when attempting to update to Mandrake 10 that lilo > thought that my FAT partitions were windows OS's but I didn't see this > when I went ahead with a clean install. I have fought hard with this > partition problem for some time and feel that I might be missing > something real simple, so forgive me for persevering. Right now > everything runs fine in this regard but the next time I go to update or > try something different I can see me getting balder. What you probably ought to do is hang with what you have for a bit until you get sorted out and get all your ducks in a row, and then decide what you're layout is going to be based on what you know and what you need. What would be handy is if you could post your /etc/fstab so that I could see how you are mounting these partitions. There's a simple method to layout and then there are more unecessarily complex methods; it seems to me that what you are doing may be a little more complex than it needs to be. LX
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