--Original Message-
From: John P Verel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: vrijdag 31 mei 2002 15:11
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Partition Problem
>On 05/31/02, 11:17:10AM +0200, Van Den Abeele Kristof wrote:
Be sure to take note of item 3.20 in the Red Hat Installation Guide re
>On 05/31/02, 11:17:10AM +0200, Van Den Abeele Kristof wrote:
Be sure to take note of item 3.20 in the Red Hat Installation Guide re:
Boot Loader Installation. If you intend to use LILO or Grub as a
secondary boot loader, it must be installed either below the 1024
cylinder limit or you must sele
--- Van Den Abeele Kristof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
Hello all ,
>
> I have currently one harddisk ( 45GB ) running Win98/WinXP
> ( Pri - C:\ - Win 98 - FAT ) ( Extended D:\ & E:\ - Data - FAT ) (
> Pri - H:\ - NTFS )
>
> But now I have seen the light and I want to install Redhat 7.3 :)
>
Yes go ahead and take the E: off . As far as I have seen , you can have Linux on an extended partition.
My suggestion : have separate partitions for / , /usr and /home and have a SWAP space (2xRAM),
Cheers,
Shyam
Van Den Abeele Kristof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello all , I have currently one
Hi again Steve,
> /dev/hda1 * 1 128 1028128+ b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda2 129 1245 8972302+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda5 129511 3076416bWin95 FAT32
> /dev/hda6 87988664228+ 82
Thanks for the suggestion, Ryan, but I wasn't sure how you change a
partition from hidden to active. So I used Linux's fdisk, and looked for
anything about changed to active, but only found an option to change the
bootable flag. So I made it bootable, but that didn't help (still getting
same err
-Original Message-
From: Graham Knopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 3:16 AM
Subject: Re: partition problem - DUH!
>no other unusual occurrences. So I am left with an unanswered question.
>
>Why did th
> Why did the partition table get erased?
i've personally seen two cases where a linux partition table got
munged and both were because the drive in question was terminally ill.
i recovered one case by running fdisk and reentering the exact setup
it had before (in an unusual fit of good sense i
Well, I finally just created a new partition table just like the last
one. And yes, I did use fdisk. I'm not a total dumbshit, which seems
to be what the authors I heard from judged. But
no one even attempted to answer why my partition table got erased, with
no other unusual occurrences. S
