On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 18:58, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 14:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
thanks stephen, but i still got the same problem.
i believe there is something wrong with my mbr coz mandrake can't read
the partition table. I don't know much about this thing but i'm
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Subject: Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP
If you are going to use fdisk, ONLY use it if you are going to install
XP on a Fat32 partition. NTFS and fdisk don't play together very well.
I've had to fix more installs of Win2000 and XP because a customer
decided to do it themselves and fdisked
, November 28, 2002 7:01 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP
Hi Erik,
Ok, i tried what u said. Downloaded AutoClave and ran it.
Did 1 pass since i tot that's enough. Reinstalled xp (NTFS).
Later, resized it using PQMagic, having Fat32 and ext2.
Booted into Mandrake
well a friend gave a burnt xp professional cd to me..
From: Eileen Lopp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri 29/11/2002 12:58 AM GMT+08:00
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP
Question here -- is your XP install disk OEM or retail? Some of the OEM
disks
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 09:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Erik,
Ok, i tried what u said. Downloaded AutoClave and ran it. Did 1 pass since i tot
that's enough. Reinstalled xp (NTFS). Later, resized it using PQMagic, having Fat32
and ext2. Booted into Mandrake setup.and Got the same
On November 26, 2002 07:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Charlie,
Thanks for your help. I followed your instructions. Unfortunately i got
stuck after choosing Expert installation where after which it couldn't read
my partitions properly. u might want to refer to my mail t stephen for a
If you are going to use fdisk, ONLY use it if you are going to install
XP on a Fat32 partition. NTFS and fdisk don't play together very well.
I've had to fix more installs of Win2000 and XP because a customer
decided to do it themselves and fdisked. The WinOs installed, but
refused to correctly
format.)
Do you agree to loose all the partitions?
From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue 26/11/2002 8:2 PM GMT+08:00
To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP
OK - we are into trial and error territory! I've had some success with
this approach when all
On November 26, 2002 03:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Brian,
I partitioned into 2 partitions using XP for XP and left the 3rd
partition unnamed.(which is for mandrake). I tried formatting the first 2
partitions with NTFS and FAT32. Still got the same problem when Mandrake
setup
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 02:08, Sean Goh wrote:
Hi there,
I'm having problems installing M8.2 over WinXP. I have a 20GB
harddisk and i partitioned it into 3. C: takes 5GB and D: takes 7GB. The
rest i left it for Mandrake. After installing WinXP using NTFS
filesystem, i booted M8.2 and ran
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 05:50, FemmeFatale wrote:
Should you fail to delete your partitions successfully re-reply to the list
I'm sure Stephen will help you (he's the most prolific poster today so
I'm picking on him).
---
Femme
Is prolific a bad word? (grin)
Oh, wait - I thought that was
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 12:11, Sean Goh wrote:
Hi,
Just to clarify, i want to install a dual boot system consisting of
WinXP and M8.2. I've already installed WinXP but i have trouble
installing M8.2 because of the problem stated earlier. Thanks for replying.
Sean
Ok - so then the
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 04:51, Barry Premeaux wrote:
MD8.2 (nor any other Linux distrobution I am aware of) does not read NTFS.
I'm not an XP expert, but I believe you can force it to install on a FAT32
partition. If you only need to see personal files on the XP side, then
create a FAT32
Hi Charlie,
Thanks for your help. I followed your instructions. Unfortunately i got stuck after
choosing Expert installation where after which it couldn't read my partitions
properly. u might want to refer to my mail t stephen for a full explanation.
Sean
Hi Sean;
I'm not quite
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 12:11, Sean Goh wrote:
Hi,
Just to clarify, i want to install a dual boot system consisting of
WinXP and M8.2. I've already installed WinXP but i have trouble
installing M8.2 because of the problem stated earlier. Thanks for replying.
Sean
FemmeFatale wrote:
Hi Brian,
I partitioned into 2 partitions using XP for XP and left the 3rd partition
unnamed.(which is for mandrake). I tried formatting the first 2 partitions with NTFS
and FAT32. Still got the same problem when Mandrake setup couldn't seem to detect it
properly and gave me those error
OK - we are into trial and error territory! I've had some success with
this approach when all else fails:
- boot the mandrake install CD
- take it as far as the partitioning
- tell diskdrake to delete all partitions
- create some FAT32 partitions for later use with XP plus the required
linux
On Monday 25 November 2002 07:08 am, you wrote:
Hi there,
I'm having problems installing M8.2 over WinXP. I have a 20GB
harddisk and i partitioned it into 3. C: takes 5GB and D: takes 7GB. The
rest i left it for Mandrake. After installing WinXP using NTFS
filesystem, i booted M8.2 and ran
On Monday 25 Nov 2002 5:51 pm, Barry Premeaux wrote:
On Monday 25 November 2002 07:08 am, you wrote:
Hi there,
I'm having problems installing M8.2 over WinXP. I have a 20GB
harddisk and i partitioned it into 3. C: takes 5GB and D: takes 7GB. The
rest i left it for Mandrake. After
At 11:08 PM 11/25/2002 +0800, you wrote:
Hi there,
I'm having problems installing M8.2 over WinXP. I have a 20GB harddisk
and i partitioned it into 3. C: takes 5GB and D: takes 7GB. The rest i
left it for Mandrake. After installing WinXP using NTFS filesystem, i
booted M8.2 and ran the setup
Hi,
Just to clarify, i want to install a dual boot system consisting of
WinXP and M8.2. I've already installed WinXP but i have trouble
installing M8.2 because of the problem stated earlier. Thanks for replying.
Sean
FemmeFatale wrote:
At 11:08 PM 11/25/2002 +0800, you wrote:
Hi there,
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