On Sat, 10 May 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote: > Also, DOS reports that D: (the dos partition on the second drive) > as being 1.2Gigs -- that is how big the whole drive is. DOS > doesn't see the Linux partitions there at all. I know they are there, > I am running them right now as I type this!
Perhaps you have fallen foul of the fact that DOS is broken w.r.t. partitions. Specifically, DOS reads information /inside/ the partition about its configuration instead of believing the partition table. If you create a DOS partition (not using DOS's FDISK, which takes care of matters), you have to zero out a small section of it so that DOS will be forced to use the partition table info. Unfortunately, I'm typing this away from the documentation which expounds all this. I think it's somewhere in the LILO documentation, but can't be sure. Take care! -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
