Re: [LI] PC Quest -> Linux 6.1 etc

[Raju <narain.cr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Pankaj,

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Pankaj wrote:
> I had a similar problem a few times earlier. It seems, when you run Explorer
> on Windows, it tries to look for the same partition information it had
> before a repartition. If it does not find one, it hangs. In my case, I
> thought it better to reinstall Windows.
> I hope that is feasible for you. :-) So, I feel it is the best to
> repartition all the drives

	The stuff about explorer looking for the SAME table as it was
earlier - I don't think it is true. I have win98 on my m/c and have added
and removed several partitions on innumerable occasions in almost all
possible permutations - both while adding primary partitions for a
different OS and while adding and removing logical drives, I find windoze
handles the changes pretty well. Reinstalling is a thing I do often with
windows, mostly because of it's in-built instability, but never have I
done it for this reason. 

> Windows is supposed to see using Windows fdisk (although it is known to be
> buggy while deleting logical drives). And then add the Linux partitions
> in the free space using Linux fdisk. I hope this is the correct pointer.

 As far as the installation goes I don't think the order makes any
difference at all.

> By the way, I tried to install Linux 5.2 at one of my friends place. He has
> one primary partition and one extended partition with 3 logical ones.
> Each is 1 GB. When I run disk druid during the installation, it shows me
> only hda1 and hda2 (with unknown type 0x0f) while fdisk shows me all the
> primary, extended and 3 logical partitioms. disk druid with RH Linux 6.1
> seems to work fine. A possible bug with earlier disk druid.

As for the problems with disk druid U faced with RH5.2 I have faced the
same problems but they have completely disappeared in the RH6.1. Also U
may have noticed that the logical drives were not identified. Anyway all's
well that end's well...

> From: Aditya Deshpande <aditya.deshpande@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >     I purchased a new disk of 4.3 GB and made it master. I made my
> previous 2.1 GB hard disk slave which had windows running on it, with 2
> partitions on it.
> I partitioned 4.3 GB into two 1.2 GB partitions and one 2.1 GB partition
> for linux and loaded windows on one and formatted the other to windows
> partition. I loaded linux next and it was running beautifully. However
> when i booted into windows using LILO and started windows explorer or
> clicked on the my computer icon, they would just hang. probably because
it was not able to recognize the partions.
> >     So i ran Fdisk from Linux 5.2 CD and made both partitions of 4.3 GB
> hard disk as DOS 16 bit.
> i booted through dos floppy which recognizes my cd rom and tried to run
> > fdisk or format both of which responded that unable to recognize c:
> >
> > Here are a few things that might help:
> >
> > it listed following before fiasco:
> > my 4.3 GB partioins as
> > hda1               WinFAT32
> > hda2               Extended
> > hda5               linux Native
> > hda6               linux swap

Yo Aditya,
	I think u'r problem will be well and truely solved if only U used
the windoze fdisk instead of the Linux-fdisk. The reason - I'm sorry I'm
not sure. Also U have here created an extended partition, but have U
created the logical drives in them using dos-fdisk. If not, rest assured
that this is the cause for the crash... Also as a matter of advice, it is
best to have windoze (in fact - all MS-OS'es) on the primary disk whearas
OS's like OS/2 and linux work equally well from the slave. Also the pblm
is not very clear (from the mail). If only U could elaborate, maybe we
could find a solution... You can even catch me personally at
narain.cr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and we could give it a try...

Bye.

Narain.

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