sounds like you did everything well except to make a "boot disk" for
Linux. And why in the world do you run scandisk/defrag in safe mode?
--
Mark
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On Sat, 21 Oct 2000 11:07pm ,DataChannel spake passionately in a message:
> I installed linux the following way....
> I booted off the CD.
> Selected "Customized"
> Selected "Development"
>
> Clicked OK to a few things and it comes to the partitioning tool.
> I resized my 20 gig windows partition down to around 13 to 15 gigs, and
> clicked "Auto Allocate" and it automatically created 4 partitions.( swap,
> root, usr, home, or whatever order it was).
> I left everything selected and clicked OK when it came to the package groups
> I wanted ot installed. It told me that I had enough space to install 100%
> of it, so I just simply clicked OK and installed whatever it wants to
> install.
> It installs from one CD then asks for the 2nd Extension CD. I then insert
> that and installation continues.
> It asks if I want a local network, I say no.
> It asks if I want to setup my dialup, I say yes, it detects the modem, then
> brings up dialup info.
> I enter that in.
> It asks for a root password, I enter that and some user names and boot disk
> creation and the installation is done. It reboots. Boots fine to the linux
> partition.
> I reboot again, and can boot find to the windows partition.
> Scandisk shows no errors.
>
> After everything is working fine, if I go right into safe mode and load up
> defrag and let it run, I end up with an unbootable machine since grub can't
> read the linux partition.
>
> If I try to reinstall Linux Mandrake before using the DOS fdisk, it would
> say that my partition looks a little messed up (or corrupted or whatever
> partition) and asks me if I want to wipe it clean, I simply hit reset and
> boot up a win98 boot disk and use fdisk /mbr. I can boot fine but
> installation of mandrake would end up with that same partition thing. So If
> I go and boot back up on the win98 boot disk and delete the "Non-DOS"
> partition then reboot onto the linux mandrake CD, it can read the partition
> table fine and can reinstall again and if I reinstall again, and run a
> defrag in windows after reinstalling, I end up with yet another unbootable
> system.
> If I run scandisk, nothing happens to my linux partition, it only gets
> screwed with defrag.
>
> It is beyond me on why defrag would want to mess with the linux partition
> which is way outside the boundaries of the windows partition.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike & Tracy Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 10:45 PM
> Subject: RE: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions
>
>
> > I'm sorry, but I've never had that experience. I use both the win98 and
> > win2000 versions of defrag (since I multiboot) and I've never had my Linux
> > partitions touched. Just for a little background, how EXACTLY did you
> > install Linux? Not to imply that you did something wrong, but I've done
> > things under assumtion on plenty of occasions that were detremental to the
> > health of my system and sometimes I actually get lucky and learn from it.
> > I've also talked to people who claim to have had their systems destroyed
> by
> > Partition Magic, but I've used that tool A LOT and not had a problem.
> > Sometimes it's just in one little thing that may get over looked.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
> > >So a hardware problem would be completely missed by SMART and a clean
> FULL
> > >format and a thorough scandisk and a defrag that results in erasing the
> > >linux partition?
> > >
> > >I would love to know how a hardware error would result in only wiping out
> > >the linux partition and leaving the windows one fully intact with no
> errors
> > >or anything.
> > >
> > >Yet Linux can be reinstalled and work *perfectly* without *ever*
> > >crashing or
> > >generating a single error on that same partition that the windows defrag
> so
> > >kindly removed for me.
> >
> >
>
>
>
