Re: [newbie] screwed (but workable) partitions

2002-08-13 Thread John Richard Smith
Dale Huckeby wrote: >On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Marc Audard wrote: > > >>. . . >> >> >> >> > It would make sense to try that, at least according to my quite possibly >mistaken understanding of the logic of partitioning. However, RedHat has >several times barfed on my Mandrake partitions, and

Re: [newbie] screwed (but workable) partitions

2002-08-12 Thread Dale Huckeby
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Marc Audard wrote: > > . . . > > I have Win ME and LM 8.2 (updated from LM 8.0). But indeed I would like > to overwrite LM8.2 with RH, not that I dislike LM, but I need RH for > some ``supported'' packages (looks like Win!!) > > . . . > > Regarding the answer of Civileme

Re: [newbie] screwed (but workable) partitions

2002-08-12 Thread civileme
Marc Audard wrote: >John Richard Smith wrote: >\> I hope you don't mind me not being able to answer your question, but > >>I'm curious what is going on here. >>Question: Where did you read this table, in linux fdisk ? , Dos fdisk ? >>Partition >>Magic ? >> > >Used cfdisk. But Linux fdisk shows t

Re: [newbie] screwed (but workable) partitions

2002-08-12 Thread Marc Audard
John Richard Smith wrote: \> I hope you don't mind me not being able to answer your question, but > I'm curious what is going on here. > Question: Where did you read this table, in linux fdisk ? , Dos fdisk ? > Partition > Magic ? Used cfdisk. But Linux fdisk shows the same > I note according t

Re: [newbie] screwed (but workable) partitions

2002-08-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Marc Audard wrote: >Hi, > >I have Mandrake 8.2 installed in dual boot with WIN ME, and everything >works fine. When I tried to install RedHat, I got a message saying the >partition table was unreadable, that I had to reinitialize, with a >subsequent loss of all data. > >It turns out that my parti

Re: [newbie] screwed (but workable) partitions

2002-08-11 Thread civileme
Marc Audard wrote: >Hi, > >I have Mandrake 8.2 installed in dual boot with WIN ME, and everything >works fine. When I tried to install RedHat, I got a message saying the >partition table was unreadable, that I had to reinitialize, with a >subsequent loss of all data. > >It turns out that my parti

[newbie] screwed (but workable) partitions

2002-08-11 Thread Marc Audard
Hi, I have Mandrake 8.2 installed in dual boot with WIN ME, and everything works fine. When I tried to install RedHat, I got a message saying the partition table was unreadable, that I had to reinitialize, with a subsequent loss of all data. It turns out that my partition table looks like this: