I am waiting for System Commander 2000 to arrive. I have also started up my other
computer with Win98SE.
I have a 10 Gig. Fujitsu hard drive that was formatted using DiskGo. I tried using
fdisk but it only acknowledged that I had 8 Gig.
After reading a ton of material on hard drives, I came across an article about
Win98SE, hard drives and 3rd party utilities.
It stated that I should not used fdisk to partition the drive but DiskGo. The
manufacturer provided it for free.
Any way, that was some time ago. As partitioning was never my specialty, I have been
reading a book on Multi-Boot Configurations to get familiar with this process. Oh,
and the Installation Guide that came with Linux Mandrake 7.0 Power Pack. Umh.. So, I
create an active partition for DOS, then create another partition for Linux Mandrake,
and then install the OSs in that order?
Roman
(You've never felt pain until you've been repartitioning the same drive for several
days)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I used System commander 5 succesfully to set up 1 Win95 and 4 Linux
> installations on 2 hard drives, was very satisfied with it. I bought System
> Commander 2000 when wanted to install Mandrake 7.0 alongside Win98 on a laptop,
> tried to resize the Win98 partition to make room and it didn't work at all
> although I am sure that the problem was that of an incompetent user who thought
> he knew all about it and didn't bother to read the manual properly, perhaps
> I'll learn......
>
> On Fri, 12 May 2000, you wrote:
> > Just a follow up question. Have you heard of System Commander 2000 from V
> > Communications? I was considering on purchasing it rather than Partition Magic.
> > Since I would like to have multiple OSs on my computer, I thought that it would
> > be very handy as it also handles all sorts of OS, including partitioning.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Roman
> > (I have learned that pain is not my enemy)
> >
> > Romanator wrote:
> >
> > > Sounds good. Since I don't have the full version of PM, I'll keep the
> > > 1st FAT partition for C. Then, split the 2nd FAT (D drive) using the
> > > partition program included with Linux Mandrake 7.0 Power Pack.
> > >
> > > Roman
> > >
> > > Ron Greer wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Well, you can change the two fat partitions you mentioned.... just not the
> > > > NTFS one, so either/both of those 2 Gig Fat partitions would work fine.
> > > > -=Ron=-
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 8:41 AM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: Re: [newbie] 3COM, @Home Service and Linux Mandrake 7.0
> > > >
> > > > Roman
> > > > If you have the full version of PartationMagic you can move, resize,
> > > > delete or add partitions at will including NTFS file systems. If you are
> > > > using the PM that comes with the Mandrake CD you CAN NOT modiy NTFS
> > > > partitions. So the answer to your question is YES and NO. Which PM do you
> > > > have?
> > > >
> > > > Charles
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 11:22 AM
> > > > Subject: [newbie] 3COM, @Home Service and Linux Mandrake 7.0
> > > >
> > > > > Yes! My Power Pack is arriving today. Any how....
> > > > >
> > > > > As I am still new to this... Earlier this year, I purchased a Dell
> > > > > Dimension XPSB 733 with Windows NT (arrgh - I wasn't aware of Mandrake).
> > > > > My first FAT partition is 2 Gig. (drive C), my second FAT is 2 Gig.
> > > > > (drive D). The third is about 15 Gig. (drive E), and is NTFS. A 3Com
> > > > > card was included with the workstation.
> > > > >
> > > > > >From the previous e-mail, I have heard that there is an issue with 3COM.
> > > > > And, Linux does not support USB - at least not until this Fall. I am
> > > > > also using the @Home service for the Internet.
> > > > > If I use Partition Magic, will I be able to squeeze another partition
> > > > > between the 2nd and 3rd partitions for the Linux installation?
> > > > >
> > > > > Any help would be appreciated.
> > > > >
> > > > > Roman
> > > > > (I have learned that pain is not my enemy)
> > > > > --
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > >
> > > --
> >
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