[newbie] partition problem
Hi all I'm trying to install LM8.0 on a second box, but when diskdrake asks about what to do, it says it can't resize my windows98 partition, which appears to be fat32-lba mapped (what is that?) is it a software problem, the disk is to fragmented, or it has to do with the BIOS? can i use partition magic to try it? Thanks Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
RE: [newbie] partition problem
Hello. When you say a second box you want to say a Second partition, true? I think you have too defragmented your partition. To resize a partition, first you must defrag it, in order to have all data at the beginning. And then resize it safely. Yes, You can use Partition Magic. Be carefull and perhaps make a backup before resize. The DOS file system use a FAT (File Allocation Table) to indicate the secuence of clusters (a cluster is a group of sectors) of your partition correspond to each archive. The number of cluster of your partition is 2^32 (FAT32), each file of size greater tha zero occupied one cluster at least, for example a file of 55 bytes is on a cluster of for example 16 Kb, wasting more than 15 Kb of space. LBA (Logical Block Adress) is an standard invented to manage hard disk greater than 512 Mb, that was the limited for the before standard. Bye. - Original Message - From: Carlos Alberto Berardi González [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 6:38 PM Subject: [newbie] partition problem Hi all I'm trying to install LM8.0 on a second box, but when diskdrake asks about what to do, it says it can't resize my windows98 partition, which appears to be fat32-lba mapped (what is that?) is it a software problem, the disk is to fragmented, or it has to do with the BIOS? can i use partition magic to try it? Thanks Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 __ mensaje enviado desde http://www.iespana.es emails (pop)-paginas web (espacio illimitado)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-foros
Re: [newbie] partition problem
Try using partition magic The best program for controling your partitions. You can do every kind of event about partitions with that program. I have the trial version (!) of it and can send you from ICQ My ICQ UIN is 6090411. On Tuesday 12 June 2001 02:45 am, Tyrell wrote: Hello. When you say a second box you want to say a Second partition, true? I think you have too defragmented your partition. To resize a partition, first you must defrag it, in order to have all data at the beginning. And then resize it safely. Yes, You can use Partition Magic. Be carefull and perhaps make a backup before resize. The DOS file system use a FAT (File Allocation Table) to indicate the secuence of clusters (a cluster is a group of sectors) of your partition correspond to each archive. The number of cluster of your partition is 2^32 (FAT32), each file of size greater tha zero occupied one cluster at least, for example a file of 55 bytes is on a cluster of for example 16 Kb, wasting more than 15 Kb of space. LBA (Logical Block Adress) is an standard invented to manage hard disk greater than 512 Mb, that was the limited for the before standard. Bye. - Original Message - From: Carlos Alberto Berardi González [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 6:38 PM Subject: [newbie] partition problem Hi all I'm trying to install LM8.0 on a second box, but when diskdrake asks about what to do, it says it can't resize my windows98 partition, which appears to be fat32-lba mapped (what is that?) is it a software problem, the disk is to fragmented, or it has to do with the BIOS? can i use partition magic to try it? Thanks Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 ___ ___ mensaje enviado desde http://www.iespana.es emails (pop)-paginas web (espacio illimitado)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-foros _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Partition problem after install
On Friday 01 June 2001 03:35, Ivor Blockley wrote: Hi I just installed mandrake 7.2 and now dos can't see my fat32 extended partitions (although linux still sees them). Prior to the mandrake install my harddrive was configured into 5 partitions - a primary dos fat32 parition (c:) which I had recently formatted (in fact I was so slack I didn't make it bootable even), and 4 logical fat32 paritions d to g. Parititons e through to g contained valuable data, but paritition d was emtpy. So when I installed linux I used diskdrake to delete partition d and replace it with the required linux paritions. Mandrake works fine but when I boot up, say using a win98 boot disk, dos can see c:, but no other hard drive paritions. Anyone know what happened and how to fix it? I can still obviously access all my data through linux, but it would be nice to have dos back to normal. Thanks, Ivor Yes, the first extended partition has a type code that says 0x83 which is a stop sign to windows. It quits looking. Partitiona are organiized as follows: On the first sector of the drive bytes 446-461 First primary partition info or extended paqrtition pointer if no primaries 462-477 2nd primary or extended pointer 478-493 3rd primary or extended pointer 494-509 4th primary or extended pointer 510-511 Signature bytes (end of sector) Now whichever one points to an extended partition simply points to the first sector of an extended partition... In that first sector in the same area are two data fields--one gives size ans starting info about the partition and the other points to the NEXT extended partition first sector where the pattern of info is repeated, until all extensions are described. Windows sees the linux type code and looks no further. To stop this, and to recover your windows data, figure some good place to put it. Then use fdisk (linux) to toggle the type of the former D: drive to FAT32. You should then be able to see the other drives and recover the data from them. Then stomp the whole extended partition scheme and leave the rest of the disk UNPARTITIONED. Then reinstall linux, making any windows partitions FIRST. Sorry, but windows simply does not have the intelligence to look beyond a linux partition. Alternatively, you can use GNU/linux to copy the data from the windows partitions to the first windows partitions, but you can never make those later partitions accessible to windows, without surgery on the partition table and reinstalling Mandrake's distribution of GNU/linux. Civileme
[newbie] Partition problem after install
Hi I just installed mandrake 7.2 and now dos can't see my fat32 extended partitions (although linux still sees them). Prior to the mandrake install my harddrive was configured into 5 partitions - a primary dos fat32 parition (c:) which I had recently formatted (in fact I was so slack I didn't make it bootable even), and 4 logical fat32 paritions d to g. Parititons e through to g contained valuable data, but paritition d was emtpy. So when I installed linux I used diskdrake to delete partition d and replace it with the required linux paritions. Mandrake works fine but when I boot up, say using a win98 boot disk, dos can see c:, but no other hard drive paritions. Anyone know what happened and how to fix it? I can still obviously access all my data through linux, but it would be nice to have dos back to normal. Thanks, Ivor ___ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/
Re: [newbie] Partition problem after install
Ivor Blockley wrote: Hi I just installed mandrake 7.2 and now dos can't see my fat32 extended partitions (although linux still sees them). Prior to the mandrake install my harddrive was configured into 5 partitions - a primary dos fat32 parition (c:) which I had recently formatted (in fact I was so slack I didn't make it bootable even), and 4 logical fat32 paritions d to g. Parititons e through to g contained valuable data, but paritition d was emtpy. So when I installed linux I used diskdrake to delete partition d and replace it with the required linux paritions. Mandrake works fine but when I boot up, say using a win98 boot disk, dos can see c:, but no other hard drive paritions. Anyone know what happened and how to fix it? I can still obviously access all my data through linux, but it would be nice to have dos back to normal. Thanks, Ivor Ivorif I remember correctly, what's happened here is that DrakX has changed your hda2 partition id from type f to type 85. Check it out with fdisk and change it back if I'm correct. -- Alan
[newbie] Partition problem - - Help me, O Ye Sky-Gods of Mandrake !
This is a problem that is potentially embarassing for Mandrake, and I'm surprised not to have heard from them when I first posted it: LM 7.1 installs without any problem, and while installing it I can create the partitions I need with either fdisk or diskdrake without any trouble. When I boot-up my LM 7.2 cd, it works very well except that under 7.2, neither fdisk nor diskdrake can see the partition table of the hard disk. Is this a known "feature" ? Do you need more details on the machine setup ? Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither. -- Josh Billings --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] partition problem
when i am in the partitioner, which has always worked fine before. i try to make an ext2 partition and it says this : Minimum filesystem size is 20059248 sectors at usr/bin/perl-install/resize_fat/main.pm line 130. what does this mean and how can i fix it, i installed norton systemworks the other day. does this have anything to do with it?i have 7.0-2 if that means anything.
