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

["Pankaj" <meetpankaj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

May be I am wrong ( i get a feeling i am not )
but I had faced the problem with Windows 95

----- Original Message -----
From: Raju <narain.cr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: [LI] PC Quest -> Linux 6.1 etc


> 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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