[newbie] Warning: Mandrake changed DOS extended partition to Linux - how to fix

2000-06-23 Thread M. R. N. Weston
This email is a warning and solution that I hope will help someone out there. Also included (of course) is my fix! Symptom: After installing Linux Mandrake 7.1, Windows can't read any FAT drives in the extended partition. Further description: Computer that I was installing on had a 13G drive

Re: [newbie] Warning: Mandrake changed DOS extended partition toLinux - how to fix

2000-06-23 Thread M. R. N. Weston
Here's an even BETTER solution. Don't install Linux on anything other than it own partition. That includes Extended DOS partitions. If you have to use Partition magic to resize your DOS primary partition and create another primary parition which is where your Linux installation will go. I