I have Partition Magic installed, and have created a linux swap and ext2 partition. Does the location of these partitions matter whether or not the Mandrake installation program will be able to find them? I am not sure if this is a problem with the install not being able to detect the drive or being able to see the partition on which to install. Jared On 4 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > (1)Linux often has problems with partition sizes greater > than 8 gigabytes. It is also fussy about where the LILO is > placed (the 1024 cylinders thing). > (2) Mandrake Software has admitted that DiskDrake does not > yet work as it should. > > To solve a similar problem I used Partition Magic 4.01, > which allowed me to graphically, non-destructively, shrink > Windows partitions and create Linux native partitions in the > resulting free space. This is a commercial product and > there may be free alternatives available but I have no > personal experience of them. > Regards, > Ron > > > Quoting Jared Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I just tried installing Mandrake 7.0 for the first time > last night. I > > have one 27GB partioned all in one FAT32 for 98. The new > graphical setup > > worked very nicely until it said it couldn't find any > valid devices to > > create filesystems on. Any help is greatly appreciated. > Many thanks in > > advance! > > > > Jared > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------n-i-c-.-f-i > Internet -ilman kuluja! Liity heti (http://www.nic.fi/) >
