Roman....you're not stupid, so I won't call you that. :-) The
problem is that the MandrakeSoft Powerpack (and MacMillan's
7.0 Deluxe) does not include PQ Partition Magic. MacMillan's
7.0 Complete is the package that includes it.
Alan
Romanator wrote:
>
> Call me stupid but I have checked all 6 CDs, and I cannot find Partition Magic.
> I purchased Linux Mandrake 7.0 Power Pack.
>
> Roman.
>
> Charles A Edwards wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> > Roman
> > Anytime I reformat any of my HDs I always use the vendor supplied
> > software. IBM has EZDrive, Maxtor has MaxBlast and I suppose DiskGo is
> > Fujitsu version.
> > If all you will be installing on this drive are Win98 and Mandrake you
> > do not need to partition your drive beforehand.
> > 1) Install Win98
> > 2)Install PM that is included with the Mandrake CDs
> > 3)From within Win launch PM [It is a DOS based based program so do
> > not worry when that message screen pops up].
> > 4}When PM launches click on the Win partition and from the tools
> > select Resize. I suggest setting it at around 2GB, the other 8GB will be
> > free space, and then click apply.
> > 5) Install Mandrake. Unless you tell it otherwise it will auto install
> > itself in the Free space. I would suggest allowing it 2.5GB, the remaining
> > 5.5GB of your HD left as Free space. Set 1 of the Mandrake supplied options
> > as your MBR.
> > 6) You are done.
> >
> > One other word on SystemCommander( I like and use it myself). It
> > comes on 2 floppys and to install any part of it you have to install all of
> > it. Which means once installed you have to use it as your MBR.
> > A second point. Any time you install or re-install Win98 or WinNT
> > you will also have to re-install SysComnd.
> >
> > Charles
