Hey - I actually know the answer to this one! My fingers have also been burned!
Being a good linux installer, you created separate partitions for /, swap and home. That's 3. Windows already had 2, so that makes 5. With windblows, that's 1 too many. Four is "as many as anyone could possibly want" right? Yes Mr.Gates sir! I don't know how version dependant this is, but I've certainly seen it with 2000. After attempting a similar setup, jumping into the W2K disk manager shows 5 partitions, but it gets the sizes hopelessly wrong. I was able to reverse this by blowing away the linux partitions using the 2K disk manager without losing the windoze data. So, as far as I know, your choices are to install Linux with just / and swap, or on another disk. Brian On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 13:39, Carl Lafferty wrote: > Question about partitioning.. Friend has brought his pc to me a few times > to install Linux on it with mandrake 8.1 being the most recent. Now his > comp > has a 20gig and a 600meg drive. The 20gig is master and is broken up into > a 4gig partition and the remaining is a windows data drive. I used > partition magic > 6.0 to resize the roughly 15 gig partition down to something like 8 or 9gig > so we will have enough to install Linux. after the resizing is finished we > booted into windows > to make sure that his data is still there and the old E drive is down to the > proper size > and it is fine. > > Now on to installing Linux. I break the remaining free space using > mandrakes > partitioner during the install. 3gig or so for /, 256M for swap and > remaining > for /home. LM81 installs just FINE (solo-1 audio not supported yet not > withstanding). > Problem is, when he boots windows now his old E drive is GONE. Not there.. > All we have is C and D. > > Since we need the drive for windows (accounting software is there as well > as some games Linux does not run yet) I end up having to kill the Linux , > make a fat-32 > out of the free space and join with the old partition (all this in partition > magic) > to get his drives back. > > What are my options to getting his system working. I fear it is because > Linux > makes that extra space into a primary partition. and that confuses windows > to > death... > > Is my only option to resize the C drive to a larger size, kill the "E" > partition > and install Linux in that remaining extended partition?? > > Just looking for ideas here. > > > -- > I have yet to meet a C compiler that is more friendly and easier to use than > eating soup with a knife. > > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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