Steve....whoops! Also make sure you have both the 2 floppy
recovery disc set for Partiton Magic and the BootMagic recovery
floppy made up and standing by in case you screw up.
Alan
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> Steve....be real careful. With a windows partition on the same
> drive, this solution takes a lot of fooling around to get the
> new dos partition to allow you to install dos on it, then
> afterwards to both boot properly, and allow the windows
> partition to boot properly. You will also need to install the
> correct drivers to allow your cdrom to work in dos. Things can
> get real confusing. Be sure you're ready, read both the PM and
> BM manuals thoroughly first. Make sure you understand what they
> are saying.
>
> Alan
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hey...thanks, I'll probably attempt to move my Windows partition...
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > In a message dated 04/23/2000 10:50:33 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> > << Steve....what is it you don't understand about the error
> > messages you've received from the BootMagic installation?
> >
> > As a guess I'd probably go with #1 as the reason. Which is that
> > your windows partition (the one that you're trying to install
> > BootMagic on) is larger than 8 meg (8 meg on today's drives, is
> > the size that corresponds with the 1024 cylinder limit), so
> > BootMagic cannot (will not) install.
> >
> > One solution is to shrink your windows partition down to around
> > 8 meg (so that it ends on the 1023rd cylinder or less).
> >
> > Or alternately, you could move your windows partition a little
> > bit so that there's some free space at the beginning of your
> > drive and make a dos partition (fat16), install dos, and install
> > the dos version of BootMagic. I have a drive like this, it
> > contains a 200 meg dos partition at the very beginning of the
> > drive (with dos versions of Partition Magic and BootMagic
> > installed) and then two different distro's of Linux.
> >
> > The other reason (#2 BootMagic already installed on a hidden
> > partition) is far less likely to be the cause.
> >
> > Concerning the ATA/66 controller, I've no experience with it. I
> > do believe that there is a solution though, I'm just unfamiliar
> > with it.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > First I'll state my current system configuration:
> > >
> > > Gateway 700MHz PIII, 192MB PC100, IBM DeskStar 27.4GB running on Promise
> > PCI
> > > ATA/66 Controller Card, 32MB nVidia GeForce 256, Soundblaster Live!
> > >
> > > I am currently running into two problems during installation of Mandrake
> > 7.0.
> > >
> > > The First: After partitioning my drive using Partition Magic to a 4.084GB
> > > partition for Linux, I try to install BootMagic. The intallation within
> > > Windows gives me an error message to the effect of: BootMagic Installation
> > > cannot complete because: 1. There is no FAT16 or FAT32 partition available
> > > under the 1024 cylinder or, 2. BootMagic is already installed on a hidden
> > > partition. Any ideas?
> > >
> > > The Second, more important problem: When running the DrakX installation
> > > utillity from CD-ROM I get to the drive mounting point, only to find that
> > > Linux is not recognizing my drive (I suspect this is because my hdd is
> > > running from the ATA/66 Controller) I have tried all the drivers listed and
> > > none of them will work. Also I found some instructions geared for Red Hat
> > 6.1
> > > where you enter "text" at the boot: prompt and make changes manually.
> > > Mandrake 7 gives me the message, unable to locate kernel image "text".
> > >
> > > Is anyone willing to give me detailed instructions on how to fix this? I
> > > have never even seen Linux running except for screenshots, so please
> > explain
> > > in plain terms.
> > >
> > > Thanks very much!
> > >
> > > Steve Gillson
> > > "DJ Phrenzy"
> > >>
