never installed core , so i cant help....
only red hat and Mandrake ...... :-)
At 15:18 03/06/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Wayne
> I had a similar experince to Alan's when I installed Corel Linux. I
>wanted to install it on a partition on my 2nd hd , it allowed me to select
>hdb but auto took the entire hd without allowing me to manually set the
>partition size. I was not allowed to create a boot disk and Lilo was auto
>written as my mbr.
>
> Charles 6/3/2000 3:20pm
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Alan Shoemaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 8:36 PM
>Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing partition type
>
>
> > Wayne....I just installed Corel 1.0 yesterday on a similar
> > system as you describe. I got my copy as a freebie when I
> > bought some books from Linux Mall.
> >
> > Watch out, I installed with expert, assuming I'd get the most
> > control possible. But it never made a boot floppy, nor did it
> > give me any choice on where it would install lilo, it just
> > overwrote my mbr. Also it wouldn't use my preexisting
> > partitions, instead of allowing me to specify a mount point
> > for an existing ext2 partition, it forced me to delete and
> > recreate.
> >
> > Comment out the line in Mandrake's fstab to avoid problems,
> > then rewrite the line after you've done your Corel install and
> > are back in Mandrake. Then you can test your fstab entry
> > before rebooting Mandrake.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> > Wayne Petherick wrote:
> > >
> > > I recently purchased Corel WPO2K and think it is great. It comes with
>the
> > > latest version of Corel Linux with it and I was wanting to install this
>to
> > > a spare 3GB partition I have currently allocated to Windows. I ghave
> > > partition magic 5 and so changing the partition is easy. Last time I
>did
> > > this without telling Linux it failed to boot owing to an unrecognised
> > > partition or something similar and would like to know if I need to
>change
> > > the type in my fstab so it will boot correctly if I change my 3GB to
>ext2
> > > before booting back into mandrake. Any advice will be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Wayne
> >
> >
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