Hi Alan,
The published packages with MacMillian and MandrakeSoft are a little confusing. After
reading the Linux-Mandrake web site, I thought it would be best to purchase an
official copy. However, I did purchase a book from Que called: "The Multi-Boot
Configuration Handbook" by Roderick W. Smith.
I found it very helpful(thanks Rod). The book came with a CD, and it included a copy
of Partition Magic Special Edition(DOS version). Whew....
As I am very new to this, I thought that it would be better if I practiced on another
computer. This computer has Win98SE installed on it.
The entire C drive was the entire 10 Gig. drive. Using Partition Magic, I was able to
reduce it to about 2 Gig.. The rest was left as free space.
I rebooted using the installation CD 1. The installation started okay but was unable
to read the partition table. I will try again today.
I think I missed a step.
Roman
Linux Mandrake Registered User
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> 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
