Re: [newbie] 7.2 install Malfunction on partition
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:54:13 -0800, Alan S wrote: OllyI can think offhand of two basic approaches. One would be to boot up on your other Linux system, login as root and use fdisk to delete partition 4 and then log out and reboot with the installation CD and let it do the partitioning automatically telling it to use the unpartitioned area of the drive at the proper time. The other also would be to boot up on your other Linux system, login as root and this time to use fdisk to add the partitions inside partition 4 and then log out and reboot with the installation CD. Then boot up with the installation CD and when it asks, assign the mount points yourself. -- Alan -- Wed, 22 Nov 2000 02:13:12 Both logical solutions Alan, but my other system is in a old P-166 across the room (no lan 8-) .and my Tom's rootboot is too old for Mdk 7.2...but I think I am over... Here is the saga, long and plaintive... I started with a 2g fat16 with W95 newly on, a brand new 20 gig Ibm Deskstar..working well, even the PCI modem...the rest of the disc" Bare". I started the MDK 7.2 install and rapidly arrived at "expert" Disc partitioning ...I made another 2gig fat and then a 30m Linux boot and the forth primary went to an extended linux partition for the rest of the disc... For some reason? I stuck in a floppy and hit the "write table to backup" button (or similar)...man I am so glad I did, because this install was spiraling out of control,I would have been in the same condition as Pauls install.. but for that floppy I would have lost the table. A normal person would have waited until the table was complete to back it up? After I tried to put linux partitions on the extended, nothing worked as advertised ..it would accept one and then overwrite it then it would give the old "proceed at your own risk" error that Paul mentioned as he lost his.then the whole install froze tight... I was compelled to hit reset and boot back to the CD-Rom, work forward to the part table, and then recover from the floppy... back to the extended partition like clockwork I tried every way even putting swap 1st in the extended? after rebooting several more times ( love that floppy)...I decided to do a delete on the extended and run the wizard.well that worked OK and KDE sits before me in nice color In summery, I will say I am not happy with the fact that I have no separate Var and home, and all the other things I like to do with partitions...I sadly miss the Fdisk option of Helios 6.1 and doubt that I will be able to live without a separate home at the minimum...I wish they would have given me an option to choose Fdisk. I will mail these discs to Australia tomorrow, but I plan to get another pair... Next time, I shall use the Fdisk from my 6.1 to rig the Deskstar and then start the 7.2 install on a completed table. Thank you for your good suggestions Alan, in my moment of panic...it was a good fight til three o clock in the morning ,. I half way won grin. Pardon my arrogance in using a "Expert install" 8-) Thanks again Olly P Biloxi Mississippi PS..it took 45 min to suck both disks with the wizard, a total "development" should be there.
Re: [newbie] 7.2 install Malfunction on partition(Correction)
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:11:34 -0600, I wrote: In summery, I will say I am not happy with the fact that I have no separate Var and home, and all the other things I like to do with partitions...I sadly miss the Fdisk option of Helios 6.1 and doubt that I will be able to live without a separate home at the minimum...I wish they would have given me an option to choose Fdisk. --- Wed, 22 Nov 2000 05:58:59 Now that I have looked at this install I see that I was wrong about the above statement...the Home is in a separate partition on the wizard installI would have done some of it different...however what I said was incorrect. Long night grin. Olly P
Re: [newbie] 7.2 install Malfunction on partition(Correction)
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote: On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:11:34 -0600, I wrote: In summery, I will say I am not happy with the fact that I have no separate Var and home, and all the other things I like to do with partitions...I sadly miss the Fdisk option of Helios 6.1 and doubt that I will be able to live without a separate home at the minimum...I wish they would have given me an option to choose Fdisk. --- Wed, 22 Nov 2000 05:58:59 Now that I have looked at this install I see that I was wrong about the above statement...the Home is in a separate partition on the wizard installI would have done some of it different...however what I said was incorrect. Long night grin. Olly P You can create the partitons you want with the diskdrake in intsall, its very eaay to use graphical partition tool if ya ask me. but fdisk is btter of you like commandline partitioning tools instead -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191
Re: [newbie] 7.2 install Malfunction on partition
Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:54:13 -0800, Alan S wrote: OllyI can think offhand of two basic approaches. One would be to boot up on your other Linux system, login as root and use fdisk to delete partition 4 and then log out and reboot with the installation CD and let it do the partitioning automatically telling it to use the unpartitioned area of the drive at the proper time. The other also would be to boot up on your other Linux system, login as root and this time to use fdisk to add the partitions inside partition 4 and then log out and reboot with the installation CD. Then boot up with the installation CD and when it asks, assign the mount points yourself. -- Alan -- Wed, 22 Nov 2000 02:13:12 Both logical solutions Alan, but my other system is in a old P-166 across the room (no lan 8-) .and my Tom's rootboot is too old for Mdk 7.2...but I think I am over... Here is the saga, long and plaintive... I started with a 2g fat16 with W95 newly on, a brand new 20 gig Ibm Deskstar..working well, even the PCI modem...the rest of the disc" Bare". I started the MDK 7.2 install and rapidly arrived at "expert" Disc partitioning ...I made another 2gig fat and then a 30m Linux boot and the forth primary went to an extended linux partition for the rest of the disc... For some reason? I stuck in a floppy and hit the "write table to backup" button (or similar)...man I am so glad I did, because this install was spiraling out of control,I would have been in the same condition as Pauls install.. but for that floppy I would have lost the table. A normal person would have waited until the table was complete to back it up? After I tried to put linux partitions on the extended, nothing worked as advertised ..it would accept one and then overwrite it .then it would give the old "proceed at your own risk" error that Paul mentioned as he lost his.then the whole install froze tight... I was compelled to hit reset and boot back to the CD-Rom, work forward to the part table, and then recover from the floppy... back to the extended partition like clockwork I tried every way even putting swap 1st in the extended? after rebooting several more times ( love that floppy)...I decided to do a delete on the extended and run the wizard.well that worked OK and KDE sits before me in nice color In summery, I will say I am not happy with the fact that I have no separate Var and home, and all the other things I like to do with partitions...I sadly miss the Fdisk option of Helios 6.1 and doubt that I will be able to live without a separate home at the minimum...I wish they would have given me an option to choose Fdisk. I will mail these discs to Australia tomorrow, but I plan to get another pair... Next time, I shall use the Fdisk from my 6.1 to rig the Deskstar and then start the 7.2 install on a completed table. Thank you for your good suggestions Alan, in my moment of panic...it was a good fight til three o clock in the morning ,. I half way won grin. Pardon my arrogance in using a "Expert install" 8-) Thanks again Olly P Biloxi Mississippi PS..it took 45 min to suck both disks with the wizard, a total "development" should be there. Ollysorry, I misread your original message and thought that you said that you had a previous version of Linux active on your computer. That was the 'other Linux system' to which I was referring. However, instead you could use the rescue capabilities of your installation CD (or tomsrtbt) to do the same things I already suggested -- Alan
[newbie] 7.2 install Malfunction on partition
Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:45:50 I am sitting here in trouble with my penguin, While preforming a MDK 7.2 expert installation (Hey,..no smirking) 8-) I cannot make anything go into the Linux extended partition with this installer? I have a 2g dos on hda primary 1...and another on primary 2...primary 3 is a 30m linux boot I made primary 4 a Linux extended to the end of the 20g IBM deskstar..all seems OK. I have clicked that installer to death but it will not allow me to put the rest of the partitions into the extended? just ...nobody home...it is not frozen or locked, it just will not open a panel for the next partition in the extended. Type linux extended partition 0x85...that is the correct type? right?. This is the touchey part of the install and I really don't want to destroy the table...but if someone would suggest an area to apply some force, I will tap it a little? Waiting for you Olly P Biloxi
Re: [newbie] 7.2 install Malfunction on partition
Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:45:50 I am sitting here in trouble with my penguin, While preforming a MDK 7.2 expert installation (Hey,..no smirking) 8-) I cannot make anything go into the Linux extended partition with this installer? I have a 2g dos on hda primary 1...and another on primary 2...primary 3 is a 30m linux boot I made primary 4 a Linux extended to the end of the 20g IBM deskstar..all seems OK. I have clicked that installer to death but it will not allow me to put the rest of the partitions into the extended? just ...nobody home...it is not frozen or locked, it just will not open a panel for the next partition in the extended. Type linux extended partition 0x85...that is the correct type? right?. This is the touchey part of the install and I really don't want to destroy the table...but if someone would suggest an area to apply some force, I will tap it a little? Waiting for you Olly P Biloxi OllyI can think offhand of two basic approaches. One would be to boot up on your other Linux system, login as root and use fdisk to delete partition 4 and then log out and reboot with the installation CD and let it do the partitioning automatically telling it to use the unpartitioned area of the drive at the proper time. The other also would be to boot up on your other Linux system, login as root and this time to use fdisk to add the partitions inside partition 4 and then log out and reboot with the installation CD. Then boot up with the installation CD and when it asks, assign the mount points yourself. -- Alan
