Re: [newbie] *All coughed out*
PMJI, I thought you should have a hda5 partition ? But I could be wrong, since I am such a "sin kek" (aka newbie) myself ;-) At 13-08-2000 10:43 PM, you wrote: My configuration has three FAT32 partitions on a single 6Gb disk, plus the suspend partition, plus three Linux partitions! hda1 - suspend to disk hda2 - Win98 C: (FAT32) hda3 - Win98 D: (FAT32) hda4 - Extended, contains: hda6 - Win98 E: (FAT32) hda7 - Linux Swap hda8 - Linux /boot (ext2) hda9 - Linux / (ext2) Regards, Ozz.
Re: [newbie] *All coughed out*
You are right - I made a typo for hda4 - that should have read hda5. It is hda4 that does not exist on this system. Thank you for pointing out my error. Regards, Ozz. "L. H. LOO" wrote: PMJI, I thought you should have a hda5 partition ? But I could be wrong, since I am such a "sin kek" (aka newbie) myself ;-) At 13-08-2000 10:43 PM, you wrote: My configuration has three FAT32 partitions on a single 6Gb disk, plus the suspend partition, plus three Linux partitions! hda1 - suspend to disk hda2 - Win98 C: (FAT32) hda3 - Win98 D: (FAT32) hda4 - Extended, contains: hda6 - Win98 E: (FAT32) hda7 - Linux Swap hda8 - Linux /boot (ext2) hda9 - Linux / (ext2) Regards, Ozz.
Re: [newbie] *All coughed out*
Romanator wrote: I must have spent half a day formatting and repartitioning. Windows 95, Windows 98 require a single DOS partition for M$ Setup to continue. I always make a single FAT partition just in case. For some bizarre reason, if you have multiple paritions with FAT32, Win98 will not install. I recently re-installed Win98 SE on my laptop (I still need access to my USB accessories!), and other than blatting lilo it worked fine. My configuration has three FAT32 partitions on a single 6Gb disk, plus the suspend partition, plus three Linux partitions! hda1 - suspend to disk hda2 - Win98 C: (FAT32) hda3 - Win98 D: (FAT32) hda4 - Extended, contains: hda6 - Win98 E: (FAT32) hda7 - Linux Swap hda8 - Linux /boot (ext2) hda9 - Linux / (ext2) Regards, Ozz.
RE: [newbie] *All coughed out*
Kathleen, I must have spent half a day formatting and repartitioning. Windows 95, Windows 98 require a single DOS partition for M$ Setup to continue. I always make a single FAT partition just in case. For some bizarre reason, if you have multiple paritions with FAT32, Win98 will not install. Roman -Original Message- From: Kathleen Dickason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] *delicate cough* When I had to re-install Win98 recently (don't ask! heh), the installer checked to see whether the partition had DOS formatting or VFAT or whatever... Now I'm confused! Kathleen, with way too many OSes You do need to configure the partition on which you're going to install Windows as a DOS partition before you install Windows, though. -- Kathleen Dickason Registered Linux user #182139 Sorry to butt in; you don't really have to configure any type of partition when installing Windows. You can start with an unformatted drive, then you choose if you want to use FAT 16 or FAT 32 for the filesystem (do you want to enable large disk support?). M$ sort of did a number on the public with their goofy naming scheme; 'Dos' is something similar to the bash, sh or whatever you *nix shell you want to think of, but they also named their kernel 'Dos'. Now with newer Windows products, the Dos shell is mostly just a crippled way of doing things from the command line. It's not necessary, but it exits anyway. Mike (if I totally missed the topic, just ignore this)
