Sorry to bog you guys down with so many messages, I'm new to this. I just got Linux Mandrake 7.1 up and running and I realized now what I need. Can somebody explain to me how to run this script to get win 98 to recognize an extended partition (formerly drive D:) that L-M changed to a Linux extended partition during install? This is from the FAQ site: "Solution: Use this patch to fix the problem during installation. If the damage has already been done, the other solution is to use this script which fixes the problem on a live system. To run the patch, use perl linux_extended_fix.pl on the command line as root." And this is the script referred to above, but I'm not sure how to read or run it. #!/usr/bin/perl my @l = `/sbin/fdisk -l 2>/dev/null| grep -i "Linux Extended"`; @l > 1 and die "you have more than one Linux Extended partition, too complex for me!\n"; my ($hd, $num) = $l[0] =~ m|(/dev/\w+)(\d)\s| or die "oups, this simple script fails\n"; open F, "|/sbin/fdisk $hd >/dev/null"; print F "t $num 5 w "; close F; `/sbin/fdisk -l 2>/dev/null| grep -i "Linux Extended"` and die "it failed, sorry\n"; print "All should be ok now!\n"; Thanks so much! -Paul __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
