Re: Urgent LILO failure: former - to recover damaged partition

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, John Aldrich wrote:

> On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, Stephen Liu wrote:
> > (Remark: One thing I forgot to post.
> > The partition was made with a MSWin98 boot/rescue disk.  Linux was installed
> > first and MSWindows98 afterwards, therefore MSWindow98 resides in hda3)
> > 
> YIKES! It's a bad idea to partition a drive with Windows FDISK, as
> that makes your Linux partition viewable to your Windows system....
> or at least that's what I've read.
>       John
> 
No, it does not make them any more visable.  And it is usualy a good idea
to use the tools from that operating system to create/format the
partitions that you will use with it.  But the manual for fdisk does
recomend using Windows fdisk first to create at least one partition.

Mikkel
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