Re: [newbie] Partitions and drive letters
On Friday 19 January 2001 18:09, you wrote: Thanks for the response, Fred; I'm glad to hear that Windows won't see those Linux partitions. From the Linux-Mandrake web site tutorial on partitioning, I read that there's a partitioning option called "Use free space on the Windows Partition" and explains: Loss isn't inevitable with windows partitions--they are rather easy to resize. Ext2 (Linux Native) partitions are much more code-heavy to resize and diskdrake doesn't have the codespace to deal with them, so in that case, loss is inevitable. If the four partitions on your disk are all primary partitions, then you are out of partition space and cannot add ANY partitions without deleting one and remaking it as extended. "Before resizing a hard drive which alreadycontains Windows, it is strongly recommended that you run ScanDisk and Disk Defragmenter from within Windows on the drive. And as always, back-up data you cannot afford to lose before partitioning drives." While it does warn that loss is possible, it doesn't iterate that it's inevitable. Of course, I shall backup that data. There is also an animated illustration of the partitioning in a graphical image that can be seen here: "This animations shows how to quickly and easily partition a drive thatalready contains MS-Windows using DiskDrake." http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Demo/Mandrake7.2/Install/Custom/pag es/custom6.php3 Is it certain that Windows will be wiped out of it's share of my old partition? I have used Partition Magic but don't remember that I had to re-install anything then, either, as you imply. Any other feedback shall be warmly received, Dave Fred Schroeder wrote: Windows won't see any of the Linux partions. You do know however, that unless you are using Partition Magic or something like that, .. and maybe even then, you will lose all of the data on the disk when you repartion. So make certain you have back-ups. Fred I have a single drive partitioned into 4 with my current OS (Win98se) residing in C:\. Among the options in the install is one to take over part of C:\ for Linux. If I do this, what will happen to the assigned drive letters of D:\, E:\ and F:\, CD-ROM and CD-RW; will it reassign them with new drive letters?
Re: [newbie] Partitions and drive letters
Dan LaBine wrote: Dave! If you install Linux on C:\ and Windows 98 is on it, you'll lose Windows98 ! If Linux re-writes your MBR (Master Boot record), there's an excellent chance you'll lose the partition info for all the other partitions. I think you need to exercise caution here. Are you trying to wipe out Windows in the process?? make sure you back up everything on ALL partitions! dan laBine On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, you wrote: I have a single drive partitioned into 4 with my current OS (Win98se) residing in C:\. Among the options in the install is one to take over part of C:\ for Linux. If I do this, what will happen to the assigned drive letters of D:\, E:\ and F:\, CD-ROM and CD-RW; will it reassign them with new drive letters? I have installed L-M 7.2 on at least 5 dual boot computers, and have never, ever lost anything from the WIN98 partition. Defrag it first then go ahead with a custom install of linux. When you get to the reapportioning segment of the installation program you need to 1) Click on the "C:\" partition and resize it to something larger than it contains (be liberal, WIN98 requires 10+% of the drivespace free for its ungainly swap function). 2) create new partitions out of the free space, At least 2; / and swap. ( I think /boot, /, /home, swap is better and adding a big /usr is even better.) 3) format the new partitions in the next step (check for bad sectors) 4) proceed on with install The other drive letters will not be altered. Windows assigns them at boot up anyway, and since it is too ignorant to recognize ext2 file system it wont even know they are there. Windows will only report on win file systems the other partitions are invisible to it. -- Jim -- James Mellema, CRNA -- Linux User # 71650 ICQ #19685870
Re: [newbie] Partitions and drive letters
Thanks for the response, Fred; I'm glad to hear that Windows won't see those Linux partitions. From the Linux-Mandrake web site tutorial on partitioning, I read that there's a partitioning option called "Use free space on the Windows Partition" and explains: "Before resizing a hard drive which alreadycontains Windows, it is strongly recommended that you run ScanDisk and Disk Defragmenter from within Windows on the drive. And as always, back-up data you cannot afford to lose before partitioning drives." While it does warn that loss is possible, it doesn't iterate that it's inevitable. Of course, I shall backup that data. There is also an animated illustration of the partitioning in a graphical image that can be seen here: "This animations shows how to quickly and easily partition a drive thatalready contains MS-Windows using DiskDrake." http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Demo/Mandrake7.2/Install/Custom/pages/custom6.php3 Is it certain that Windows will be wiped out of it's share of my old partition? I have used Partition Magic but don't remember that I had to re-install anything then, either, as you imply. Any other feedback shall be warmly received, Dave Fred Schroeder wrote: Windows won't see any of the Linux partions. You do know however, that unless you are using Partition Magic or something like that, .. and maybe even then, you will lose all of the data on the disk when you repartion. So make certain you have back-ups. Fred I have a single drive partitioned into 4 with my current OS (Win98se) residing in C:\. Among the options in the install is one to take over part of C:\ for Linux. If I do this, what will happen to the assigned drive letters of D:\, E:\ and F:\, CD-ROM and CD-RW; will it reassign them with new drive letters? -- Dave Burrows 741 Cleveland Road Washington, PA 15301 USA
Re: [newbie] Partitions and drive letters
Dave, No, I am not saying that a reinstall is certain, just wanted you to be prepared if it does turn out that way. Best of luck! Fred - Original Message - From: "Dave Burrows" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 11:09 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitions and drive letters Thanks for the response, Fred; I'm glad to hear that Windows won't see those Linux partitions. From the Linux-Mandrake web site tutorial on partitioning, I read that there's a partitioning option called "Use free space on the Windows Partition" and explains: "Before resizing a hard drive which alreadycontains Windows, it is strongly recommended that you run ScanDisk and Disk Defragmenter from within Windows on the drive. And as always, back-up data you cannot afford to lose before partitioning drives." While it does warn that loss is possible, it doesn't iterate that it's inevitable. Of course, I shall backup that data. There is also an animated illustration of the partitioning in a graphical image that can be seen here: "This animations shows how to quickly and easily partition a drive thatalready contains MS-Windows using DiskDrake." http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Demo/Mandrake7.2/Install/Custom/page s/custom6.php3 Is it certain that Windows will be wiped out of it's share of my old partition? I have used Partition Magic but don't remember that I had to re-install anything then, either, as you imply. Any other feedback shall be warmly received, Dave Fred Schroeder wrote: Windows won't see any of the Linux partions. You do know however, that unless you are using Partition Magic or something like that, .. and maybe even then, you will lose all of the data on the disk when you repartion. So make certain you have back-ups. Fred I have a single drive partitioned into 4 with my current OS (Win98se) residing in C:\. Among the options in the install is one to take over part of C:\ for Linux. If I do this, what will happen to the assigned drive letters of D:\, E:\ and F:\, CD-ROM and CD-RW; will it reassign them with new drive letters? -- Dave Burrows 741 Cleveland Road Washington, PA 15301 USA
Re: [newbie] Partitions and drive letters
Dave! If you install Linux on C:\ and Windows 98 is on it, you'll lose Windows98 ! If Linux re-writes your MBR (Master Boot record), there's an excellent chance you'll lose the partition info for all the other partitions. I think you need to exercise caution here. Are you trying to wipe out Windows in the process?? make sure you back up everything on ALL partitions! dan laBine On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, you wrote: I have a single drive partitioned into 4 with my current OS (Win98se) residing in C:\. Among the options in the install is one to take over part of C:\ for Linux. If I do this, what will happen to the assigned drive letters of D:\, E:\ and F:\, CD-ROM and CD-RW; will it reassign them with new drive letters?
Re: [newbie] Partitions and drive letters
Mandrake 7.2 handles this very well. I have a WinME 20G HD and partitioned 5G for Linux with 7.2 partition manager. Don Dave! If you install Linux on C:\ and Windows 98 is on it, you'll lose Windows98 ! If Linux re-writes your MBR (Master Boot record), there's an excellent chance you'll lose the partition info for all the other partitions. I think you need to exercise caution here. Are you trying to wipe out Windows in the process?? make sure you back up everything on ALL partitions! dan laBine On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, you wrote: I have a single drive partitioned into 4 with my current OS (Win98se) residing in C:\. Among the options in the install is one to take over part of C:\ for Linux. If I do this, what will happen to the assigned drive letters of D:\, E:\ and F:\, CD-ROM and CD-RW; will it reassign them with new drive letters?
