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
