Re: Partitioning problem

2002-08-10 Thread Anshuman Singh Rawat
Hi, this is coming in pretty late (as i was on vacation)... but Thanks Riley,David and Jay! I managed to get the job done...! - Original Message - From: Riley Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, July 29, 2002 3:20 am Subject: Re: Partitioning problem >

Re: Partitioning problem

2002-07-30 Thread Jay Maass
Anshu, Are you doing okay with Linux fdisk in your partitioning? I could have mentioned that there are at least two parts to what you will be doing. First, you will be using fdisk to set up your partitions. Linux boot and root partitions will be made native Linux (ext2) file systems. The swap pa

Re: Partitioning problem

2002-07-29 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Anshu. > unfortunately i dont think WinXP recognises FAT32 system. it requires > NTFS and i can't create NTFS type partition using dos's fdisk! All I know is, it installed as an UPGRADE to my Win98SE system that was installed in a FAT32 partition, so the installer at least understands FAT32 p

Re: Partitioning problem

2002-07-28 Thread David Lane
Ufortunately I also hit reply instead of reply all.I wrote:I do not know much about Linux(but am learning) but I do know XP.It most certainly DOES recognize FAT32 and will run well on it.You can,at a later date,convert the XP partition to NTFS(the instructions are in Help and Support),either way i

Re: Partitioning problem

2002-07-28 Thread Jay Maass
Anshuman Singh Rawat [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > unfortunately i don think WinXP recognises FAT32 system. > it requires NTFS and i can't create NTFS type partition > using dos's fdisk! Anshu, I have not used Windows XP, but I did a quick Google search in terms of its file system. Unless I misread, the

Re: Partitioning problem

2002-07-28 Thread Anshuman Singh Rawat
Hi, unfortunately i don think WinXP recognises FAT32 system. it requires NTFS and i can't create NTFS type partition using dos's fdisk! -Anshu - Original Message - From: Riley Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, July 27, 2002 5:41 am Subject: Re: Partitioni

Re: Partitioning problem

2002-07-27 Thread Riley Williams
Hi. >>> btw I used Partition Magic from WinXP to partition the disc as I >>> dont know how to work around using fdisk in Linux. In the process, you probably caused this problem, and my advice would be to scrap PartitionMagic and redo your system completely. Here's the procedure I use to set up a

Re: Partitioning problem

2002-07-24 Thread pa3gcu
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 21:24, Anshuman Rawat wrote: > Hi, > I want to have both WinXP and Linux (RHL7.3) on my system but am having > trouble with the partitions. My partition table (i dunno whether thats the > correct term) looks like this (as shown by linux installer ) - > >

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2002-07-24 Thread James Mohr
HI All! Please remember to start a new threat when the topic changes, especially as if the new topic is so dramtically different as in this case. For those of us who use threadable mail readers, it is really annoying to have topics mixed like this. Regards, jimmo -- ---

Partitioning problem

2002-07-24 Thread Anshuman Rawat
Hi, I want to have both WinXP and Linux (RHL7.3) on my system but am having trouble with the partitions. My partition table (i dunno whether thats the correct term) looks like this (as shown by linux installer ) - Start EndSize(MB) Type Mount point