[newbie] Re: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-21 Thread Björn Lundin
Lance Cummings wrote: Hi Derek, Sunday, September 21, 2003, 9:33:47 PM, you wrote: trimmed DJ You have masses of space for your Linux partitions. It does not DJ really matter how you partition it up. Just make sure you have a DJ separate /home partition. That is where your user data

Re: [newbie] Re-partitioning the hard disk

2000-06-03 Thread John Couturier
I had the same problem and when I researched it, it came down to Windows and therefore Windows programs read the partition table in a different order than Linux. The error I got was #120. It is because Linux programs chain logical partitions together in the order they were created and

Re: [newbie] Re-partitioning the hard disk

2000-06-03 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
yea, diskdrake has been really sweet to me too During all my installations ;-) Dacia --- Wayne Petherick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Playing devils advocate her but when I originally installed MDK, I let diskdrake do the work and it worked like a charm. Even did a fresh install of

Re: [newbie] Re-partitioning the hard disk

2000-06-02 Thread Wayne Petherick
Playing devils advocate her but when I originally installed MDK, I let diskdrake do the work and it worked like a charm. Even did a fresh install of windows after my last linux reinstall and everyting went sweet. Sorry! Wayne On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, bascule wrote: i second that, diskdrake

Re: [newbie] Re-partitioning the hard disk

2000-06-02 Thread Paul
On Wed, 31 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: None worked though nor any disk druid of any other distro. At last i used Red Hat's fdisk which was the only one ready to look at my fucked up partition. When done, i aborted the installation of RH, booted with Partition Manager rescue disk,

Re: [newbie] Re-partitioning the hard disk

2000-06-01 Thread dickon1
Hi guys Paul, Charles and Ron, thanks for your quick response and the helpful suggestions. It is very appreciated here. None worked though nor any disk druid of any other distro. At last i used Red Hat's fdisk which was the only one ready to look at my fucked up partition. When done, i

Re: [newbie] Re-partitioning the hard disk

2000-06-01 Thread bascule
i second that, diskdrake really messed up my disk after i decided to let it do the job instead of pm, went back to pm and had no problems bascule Ron Peake wrote: Hi Dick I have experienced the same problem and in my case it resulted from letting Mandrake's Diskdrake 'fiddle' with the

Re: [newbie] Re-partitioning the hard disk

2000-05-31 Thread Ron Peake
Hi Dick I have experienced the same problem and in my case it resulted from letting Mandrake's Diskdrake 'fiddle' with the partitions created by Partition Magic. The only solution that I found was to let Nortons DiskDoctor fix the partition tables, then resize the partitions again using

[newbie] Re-partitioning the hard disk

2000-05-30 Thread dickon1
Hi guys Apart from some troubles when ML would not recognize my Realtek card (thanks for your help, Paul), installing ML went very smoothly indeed and everything works and behaves just fine. So much so, that i decided to expand the disk space allotted to ML so that i could install some more

[newbie] Re: Partitioning

1999-08-13 Thread John M.
Sometimes Partition Magic can delete the partitions, but then sometimes Partition Magic will totally mess up the Partition Table, then the hard drive won't even format or fdisk or anything, (I have been there). I used Partition Magic 4.0 to try and delete some ext2 partitions and it deleted