If you are going to wipe disk and start over may I make a suggestion? I
have seen some strange behavior by M$ version of fdisk. Including the
problem you are having...
use fdisk from withing linux to REMOVE all partition and then reboot.
Using your dos boot disk with fdisk on ot do
fdisk /mbr and then REBOOT again!
Now try the M$ fdisk again.
Had a drive once that thought it was 1/15th it's real size and had to
fix it this way. Drove me nuts for days, tech support calls and all
that. Hope this helps, Be SURE to do reboot at each step.
bryan pryor wrote:
>
> You're right, right now i don't have any fat 32 partitions on my disk, but
> when i boot using my win98 floppy and use fdisk, it says i only have 473 MB
> of total disk space, when I actually have a 6.4 GB hard drive. But I'll
> keep trying and keep you informed.
>
> Bryan
>
> Sounds to me like you don't have a Fat16 or Fat32 partition on your drive.
> Personally, I'd start completely over. Boot to a win98 boot-disk. Use
> fdisk to get rid of ALL partitions. set your HD up as one large FAT32
> drive. Format the drive. Install win98. Boot to your Mandrake CD after
> win98 has been totally installed. setup your linux partitions using LILO
> during installation. Finish the Linux install and boot to whatever you set
> as default. If you need to change your default OS, run KLILO under KDE and
> do it from there.
>
> That's how I would do it.
>
> George E. Jones IV
> ABN AMRO ITSC North America
> End User Support
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/04/2000 12:00:00 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cc: (bcc: George Jones/US/ABNAMRO/NL)
> Subject: [newbie] More probs with dual boot
>
> Let me just get this out of the way. WINDOWS SUCKS @$$! Ok, I feel better
> now. I'm trying to go with a dual boot win98/mandrake 7.0 system b/c i
> can't get my modem to work with linux and have run out of $$$. Someone
> said
> that it is possible to get my modem (modem blaster PCI) to work with Linux,
> by setting it as a generic hayse compatible, but gave me no more info.
> Being new at this, i don't know how to do that.
>
> Back to my dual boot probs. I have read many emails on this list about dual
> booting, and I'm trying to install Winblows first. I put in the 98 CD,
> booted from it, and ran setup. It said that It couldn't recognize the
> filesystem (or some other bull****), and to run fdisk. so I ran DOS fdisk,
> and it said that my 6.4 gig hard drive was a 473 MB drive. So I
> reinstalled
> Mandrake. Install went perfectly, recognized my 6.4 GB hard drive, etc...
> but still no modem. So I uninstalled LILO with lilo -u at the bash prompt,
> used Linux cfdisk, deleted all partitions, and put a 3 GB FAT32 partition
> and a 3.4 GB Linux partition on. Ran win98 setup, still doesn't like it.
> Ran DOS fdisk, and it says i have a 473 MB hard drive again. By now, i was
> so pissed off, i put mandrake back on and gave the whole hard drive to
> linux. If you could give me any help, I would really appreciate it.
> Please
> keep in mind that i'm a brand newbie, so keep the advice in english if
> possible.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bryan
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