[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 10 May, Ken Gaugler wrote: > > > > [partition problems] > > Hello! > > Sad to say I can only offer this very general advice (which you may > already have heard and followed; in that case ignore me ;-) > > Always delete and create partitions with the corresponding OS's fdisk, > ie create/delete DOS/95 partitions with DOS fdisk etc. > > In particular DOS/95 can get confused and write on disk areas it's not > supposed to touch... _Beware_ of running DOS/95 while it thinks the > entire hdb is DOS, it might very well overwrite Linux stuff... > > About the ordering; are the later partitions on hda extended/logical > instead of primary? Could be that DOS lists primary partitions before > extended/logical ones... Not that I'm sure, only use 2 DOS/95 > partitions myself and they're hda2 and hdc1 (hdb is CD-player) > > /Michael > -- > | Linux: Turn on...Tune in...Fork out... | > | Michael Tempsch, member of Ballistic Wizards, TIP#088, TDGP#20 | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | Cell.Phone:+46 705487554 URL:http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d1temp |
Thanks for the reply, Michael. This is really odd, but as it turns out, only the Win95 file utilities like Explorer, Winfile, chkdsk and Scandisk report the full Gig as belonging to DOS. If I run DOS fdisk, it shows the DOS partition as being the correct size (375 Megs) and it also shows 3 non-dos partitions. Fortunately I still have the old disk with my original Debian setup on it; if I have to I will start fooling around with dos/linux fdisk and see what happens. Sure would like to avoid having to do the copy again. -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng/ "The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE..." -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
