Hi FF
I too have couple of partitions, thanks to fdisk (the Linux one). Great
program, eats happily M$ partitions : ). 9 on hda, 6 on hdb. Red Hat 7.2
is
on hdb and 'fdisk -l /dev/hdb' tells me:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 49 393561 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdb2 50 56 56227+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb3 57 275 1759117+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb4 276 2491 17800020 5 Extended
/dev/hdb5 276 1040 6144831 83 Linux
/dev/hdb6 1041 2491 11655126 83 Linux
As you can see, it's not completely on extended; /boot and /home are on
primary, only / is on extended/logical. Had no trouble while installing
and works ok. hda is my "playground" (M$, MDK, Debian and Slak and
FreeBSD will be there too when I just figure out how to rearrange the
partitions) I guess M$ has to go ; )
This is what I found from RH Installation-HOWTO:
"Note that MS-DOS FDISK will give you an option to create a ``logical
DOS drive''. A logical DOS drive is just a logical partition on your
hard drive. You CAN install Linux on a logical partition, but you
don't want to create that logical partition with MS-DOS fdisk. So, if
you're currently using a logical DOS drive, and want to install Linux
in its place, you should delete the logical drive with MS-DOS FDISK,
and (later) create a logical partition for Linux in its place."
Yeah, it says DOS FDISK but maybe it applies to other Windows disk tools
too... Go figure..
So, try creating the RH partition with (Linux) fdisk or DiskDrake. Or you
could do it during RH installation. If this doesn't help then it's beyond
my knowledge.
If I understood correctly, all your stuff is on one disk? Maybe you
should consider getting another drive. Keep the important OS('es) and
personal things on one drive and torture the other one... That way you
won't lose everything if something goes totally wrong.
Cheers
J.
On Thursday 07 March 2002 05:34, you wrote:
> Has anyone tried installing or had experience with RH 7.2?
>
> I have several partitions, thanks to Partition Magic 7. Great program.
> However when I tried to install RH 7.2, I had a problem.
>
> Seems it will NOT install to anything but a primary partition. What
> gives?
>
> My current drive looks like this:
>
> Windows FAT32 drive D: Primary Part.
> Windows Extended Partion on same drive (physical drive): Primary
> Linux Mandrake install on same drive again: Logical (/Root)Ext2, Reiser
> Linux Mandrake install on same drive again: Logical (/Swap),Ext2
> Linux Mandrake install on same drive again: Logical (/Home?)Ext2, Reiser
> Linux: Logical, soon to be I hoped the RH 7.2 partition, Ext2
>
> Now, PM 7, sees those partitions as EXT2 partitions. And only 2
> partitions are Primary as you can see. The Fat32 partition is "Hidden"
> as only one Primary may be visible to Windows 2k at once. The visible
> one being the extended one *though I'd like to change that, I can't find
> a way to do it yet, and make the Extended partition the hidden one*.
>
> Anyway, when I go to install RH2 it gives me an error saying it can't
> install to anything but a Primary partition. Now, in the installer I've
> tried to "force" a Primary partition, but no go.
>
> Any ideas???
>
> Thx,
> Femme
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