something else I forgot to mention. NEVER use FIPS on a HDD that you
intend to use all the time, or one that you intend to keep. Use FIPS and
you're welcoming any and all problems that you can imagine on your
HDD. Overlapping partitions is one of the most common problems associated
with the program and just the beginning of your sorrows.
--
Mark
I love my Linux Box...
REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym.
Registered Linux user # 1299563
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, kdm wrote:
> I have installed many types of Linuxs(Redhat, Debian, SuSe, Mandrake, Slack, all
> x86), but I have never seen an install corrupt a hard drive. It sounds as if
> Partition Magic has corrupted your partition table. Maybe use fdisk to clean it
> up?
>
> -...graphic card gets probed and bye bye install. Never mind, been there
> before, start clean and try again...-
>
> Sounds as if you need a better video card manufacturer 8)
>
> > Hello All
> >
> > Having tried various flavours of Linux (RH 5.2 - 6.1, SuSE 6.0 - 6.3)
> > I thought I'd try Mandrake. Followed my usual practice of clearing
> > some space(3.5G) on my 2nd drive using Partition Magic 3.0 and
> > running the installation CD. Everything seemed to go fine, quite
> > impressed in fact, then, as has happened with all the other distros,
> > graphics card gets probed and bye bye install. Never mind, been
> > there before, start clean and try again with text installer.
>
>
> >
> > Problem.
> >
> > PM 3.0 now tells me it doesn't recognise the 2nd drive's signature
> > (or words to that effect) so it's not going to play anymore. Win 95,
> > astonishingly, seems quite happy with it! It can see it's 1.3G FAT32
> > partition and doesn't seem concerned about anything else.
> > Just to see if the Mandrake installer could figure out what it had
> > done, tried it again only to be told my drive was corrupt and it was
> > giving up! (Once again words to that effect - this happened a few
> > weeks ago). Fdisk(DOS) and FIPS indicate some problems with
> > overlapping partition boundaries or something.
> >
> > H/W setup:-
> > Gateway 2000 P5 200MMX 64M
> > Virge/VX 4M
> > Ensonic Soundscape VIVO 90
> > Fujitsu 6.4G, Maxtor 4.8G
> > 2 brand X CDR.
> > TV card, modem, scanner etc.
> >
> > There are obviously a number of possible solutions to the problem
> > which, being a byte botherer of too many years experience, I could
> > probably work out, but the question is:-
> >
> > WHY DID IT HAPPEN?
> >
> > Any clues anyone?
> > (Is this a known problem?)
> >
> > Bye for now
> >
> > Graham
> >
> >
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