That's just sad... but funny, lol.
----- Original Message -----
From: "patrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem with DiskDrake
> Ed Tharp wrote:
>
> > just how big deem hard drives? and where did you get a 6000 gig. drive
> > anyway, from the starship Enterprise? Kirk will be mad.....
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Raju Krishnappa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 5:46 PM
> > Subject: [newbie] Problem with DiskDrake
> >
> > > Hello Friends,
> > >
> > > Yesterday i was installing Mandrake 7.2 on
> > > AMDk7 - 750MHz, VIA- Chipset(Soyo Mother board)
> > > 128MB, Diamond Viper 200(32MB)AGP and 30GB Hard
> > > Disk
> > > I had 4 partitions on this Harddisk, is connected to primary
> > > IDE (master), of the following size
> > >
> > > 1) Partition 1 = 6000GB
> > > 2) Partitoon 2 = 9000GB
> > > 3) Partition 3 = 6000GB
> > >
> > > I had win98 and 2000 on these partitions.
> > >
> > > In the forth partition, i had an suse linux installed(around 8 - 9 gb)
> > > with swap, boot and root partition.
> > >
> > > I started Mandrake 7.2 installation from the CD rom
> > > and choose "Select existing partition". It showed
> > > the existing linux partition(SuSe one). It asked to
> > > continue with the formating of the Linux Native partition.
> > > and resulted in error saying "unable to format and mount"
> > >
> > > Then, i thought of changing the partition size,
> > > i used advanced option,(DiskDrake - disk partitioner and
> > > resizer), this showed the existing partition information on
> > > the disk properly, and then i created partitions and selected
> > > mount point for the /boot and /(root).
> > > DiskDrake prompted, partition information is going to written
> > > to disk, then i pressed ok. After that, it pooped a box saying
> > > "Unable to read partition information, continue at your own risk"
> > > then it displayed a blank disk with no partition. Actually it
> > > screwed up my entire disk partition information by deleting
> > > partition table.
> > >
> > > Then i shutdown mandrake installation, and try to boot to win98.
> > > i couldn't able too, bios din't reconginze booting device, then i
> > > boot using 98 floppy and did fdisk on the harddisk,
> > > i was really surprised, only two partition were there on the
> > > disk, C: with 1MB and D with 4GB. and my entire hard
> > > disk got wiped out and i couldn't able to recover the data.
> > >
> > > Later i thought of partitioning harddisk using DiskDrake and
> > > install mandrake. I created 3 FAT32 partition
> > > of size 6000Gb, 6000GB,10000GB, and in the remaining(8GB)
> > > i created swap, /boot and / linux partition, at this
> > > time too, i faced few problems with DiskDrake, it used to
> > > give error message saying "swap space need to be."(specifying exact
> > > error message). Finally somehow, i could able to format
> > > linux native partition and installation went through properly.
> > > I selected boot loader to reside on MBR.
> > > Then installation displayed "Installation completion" message,
> > > told to reboot the system, by removing the media from the
> > > CDRom. I did this, but system was unable to boot/find the
> > > linux boot image.
> > >
> > > No other way to go, i reinstalled the Linux, during this time also i
> > > need to re-create partitions(i was getting same old error
> > > messages) and however i managed to create boot disk this time
> > > and told to install boot loader in the first sector of boot
> > > partition and rebooted the system. Same thing, the system
> > > din't recognized the linux loader, however i could
> > > able to boot using boot disk which i had created during
> > > installation.
> > >
> > > Then i booted to win98, and did fdisk, surprisingly
> > > i could able to see only two partition even though
> > > i had created 3 FAT32 partition with DiskDrake.
> > > Primary partition C: of 6GB(this is correct) and
> > > Only one extended dos partition of 23GB D:
> > > but i had created two extended partition of 6GB and 10 GB.
> > >
> > >
> > > I need to know, why system is unable to load linux
> > > on startup? what is the problem with linuxloader??
> > > have you guys seen this kind of DiskDrake behavior???
> > > is this DiskDrake is a buggy software???
> > >
> > > Can mandrake guys answer my questions??
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Raj
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
> rolling on the floor :)
>
> this newbie place can be fun at times
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