Just wanted to note something
Windows NT and Windows 2000 will allow you to create up to 4 primary
partitions on a single drive. This isn't supported by DOS fdisk either,
yet no one claims that it needs work.
Personally, I think thatdiskdrake is functioning properly.
Thanks
> If you are inst
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Only slightly on topic, but perhaps I'll save someone some headaches...
I ran into "issues" installing on a system with a Mylex AccelaRAID 250
(DAC960) controller. The Mylex card only recognizes 7 partitions and
DiskDrake insisted in creating some
Thank's for your interesting words on partitioning and formating, I myself
use Partition Magic, one of my absolute favorites and one of a few that I'm
ready to pay for, it's worth it.
ei
On Friday 29 December 2000 18:24, pablito wrote:
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Are you sure, I installed Mandrake 7.1 on a Toshiba
Satellite 1605 running windows98.. just popped the CD
in while already in windows, installation took care of
auto-partitioning and setting up LILO for a dual-boot
system, worked like a charm.
What I found really screws things up is *BSD->Linux,
If you are installing linux on a clean hard drive, Disk Drake may be okay.
If you are installing linux on a system with windows on it, like a lot of
people will be, and are trying to create a linux partition out of unused
space on the drive, sorry, Mandrake, but someone needs to work on this.
I h
