Re: [newbie] drive doesn't want to be partitioned

2001-12-31 Thread Charles Jennings
ves. Since I > didn't catch the beginning of this thread I am > assuming that you ran defrag in windows before > starting all of this. > Good luck. > > TC > > --- daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 20:42:00 -0700 > > Charles Jen

[newbie] neither will install

2001-12-31 Thread Charles Jennings
Dear List, I have tried to install Mandrake 8.0 and 8.1 and both fail at the point of installing the packages. The only difference is that 8.1 gives me an error message, while 8.0 just locks up the computer. The message has to do with calling certain packages that fail. Does anyone know what th

Re: [newbie] drive doesn't want to be partitioned

2001-12-27 Thread Charles Jennings
On Wednesday 26 December 2001 06:11 pm, you wrote: Maybe I am confused. I thought that Mandrake was using diskdrake to do the partitioning during the install and it wasn't able to do the "resize". Is that wrong? chuck > On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 14:28:54 -0700 > > Charles Je

Re: [newbie] drive doesn't want to be partitioned

2001-12-26 Thread Charles Jennings
a fancy GUI but it > will take you through the resizing process > step-by-step and is really pretty easy to use. > > TC > > --- tester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Charles Jennings wrote: > > >This ones got me baffled. I am trying to install > > >

Re: [newbie] drive doesn't want to be partitioned

2001-12-26 Thread Charles Jennings
t windows where it belongs. If any other idea comes to mind, or if anyone else has had any luck doing this in a more simplified way, I would appreciate knowing about it. Thanks. On Wednesday 26 December 2001 04:26 am, you wrote: > Charles Jennings wrote: > >This ones got me baffled

[newbie] drive doesn't want to be partitioned

2001-12-26 Thread Charles Jennings
This ones got me baffled. I am trying to install Mandrake 8.1 on my wifes computer. It's a pentium with a 10 gig hard drive running win98. I try to install in the expert mode and resize it. I get the massage that it can't be resized. After scandisk and defrag, and looking into fdisk, there is 6