Re: [newbie] Linux drive disappeared!

1999-08-18 Thread John May
I have Winblows98, Linux and Beos 4.5 on my computer and out of the three, I would say that BeOS is the best, but then again, there aren't near as many apps for BeOS as there are for Linux. So, I am using Linux. Of all the Linux Distributions I have tried, Linux-Mandrake is the best for

Re: [newbie] Linux drive disappeared!

1999-08-17 Thread Caymen
It is just Microsofts way of saying that WINDOWS is the ONLY OS to have. Tom Ken Wilson wrote: Windows will not recognize your Linux partitions. Also, your drive designation in Windows is not arbitrary. If you remove a drive it once had by partitioning it for another file system it will

Re: [newbie] Linux drive disappeared!

1999-08-17 Thread alann
Caymen wrote: It is just Microsofts way of saying that WINDOWS is the ONLY OS to have. Tom Ken Wilson wrote: Windows will not recognize your Linux partitions. Also, your drive designation in Windows is not arbitrary. If you remove a drive it once had by partitioning it for

Re: [newbie] Linux drive disappeared!

1999-08-16 Thread Rick Fry
Unless there's a 3rd party utility to do it, you won't. I have Win 98 and Win 2000 sharing a 13G drive and Linux on it's own 5.7G drive. Windows [either flavor] can't see the Linux drive. Original Message Follows I am running Linux and Windows 98 on the same computer but on different

RE: [newbie] Linux drive disappeared!

1999-08-16 Thread Ken Wilson
Windows will not recognize your Linux partitions. Also, your drive designation in Windows is not arbitrary. If you remove a drive it once had by partitioning it for another file system it will just redesignate the drives that are left, keeping them in alphabetic sequence. -Original

Re: [newbie] Linux drive disappeared!

1999-08-16 Thread Rick Fry
Cool it with the Windoze, eh? They're the only two systems I have that actually work on my machine right now. I had RedHat 6 and then overwrote it with Mandrake. Several folks that I highly respect as programmers have told me that RedHat 6 has so many buggies in it that it makes NT 4.0 look