Re: DOS Fdisk doesn't see Linux partitions

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

Re: DOS Fdisk doesn't see Linux partitions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Any good book on DOS internals will explain the partition behavior. DOS looks for primary partitions first. Since DOS only allows one primary partition on each disk, it finds the primary partition on the first drive, and then looks at each succeeding drive for

Re: DOS Fdisk doesn't see Linux partitions

[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 correspondin

DOS Fdisk doesn't see Linux partitions

I recently asked for "ideas about moving Debian to another disk", and got some good suggestions. I decided to use Paul Serice's excellent procedure he has on his page at http://lac.laci.net/pweb/ugs/mini_howto.html Almost everything went well. I moved the Linux partitions from the second IDE di