Re: [newbie] Partitions and drive letters

2001-01-21 Thread civileme
On Friday 19 January 2001 18:09, you wrote: Thanks for the response, Fred; I'm glad to hear that Windows won't see those Linux partitions. From the Linux-Mandrake web site tutorial on partitioning, I read that there's a partitioning option called "Use free space on the Windows Partition"

Re: [newbie] Partitions and drive letters

2001-01-20 Thread James Mellema
Dan LaBine wrote: Dave! If you install Linux on C:\ and Windows 98 is on it, you'll lose Windows98 ! If Linux re-writes your MBR (Master Boot record), there's an excellent chance you'll lose the partition info for all the other partitions. I think you need to exercise caution here. Are you

Re: [newbie] Partitions and drive letters

2001-01-19 Thread Dave Burrows
Thanks for the response, Fred; I'm glad to hear that Windows won't see those Linux partitions. From the Linux-Mandrake web site tutorial on partitioning, I read that there's a partitioning option called "Use free space on the Windows Partition" and explains: "Before resizing a hard drive

Re: [newbie] Partitions and drive letters

2001-01-19 Thread Fred Schroeder
e: [newbie] Partitions and drive letters Thanks for the response, Fred; I'm glad to hear that Windows won't see those Linux partitions. From the Linux-Mandrake web site tutorial on partitioning, I read that there's a partitioning option called "Use free space on the Windows Partition" and

Re: [newbie] Partitions and drive letters

2001-01-19 Thread Dan LaBine
Dave! If you install Linux on C:\ and Windows 98 is on it, you'll lose Windows98 ! If Linux re-writes your MBR (Master Boot record), there's an excellent chance you'll lose the partition info for all the other partitions. I think you need to exercise caution here. Are you trying to wipe out

Re: [newbie] Partitions and drive letters

2001-01-19 Thread Donald Hinds
Mandrake 7.2 handles this very well. I have a WinME 20G HD and partitioned 5G for Linux with 7.2 partition manager. Don Dave! If you install Linux on C:\ and Windows 98 is on it, you'll lose Windows98 ! If Linux re-writes your MBR (Master Boot record), there's an excellent chance