We currently have a partitioning schemeon our machines that looks like:
/dev/hda1 /boot 100MB
/dev/hda2 Windows 10GB
/dev/hda3 / 10GB
/dev/hda5 swap ~512MB
We currently install linux first, so that the partitioning scheme is setup
properly and then install windows, there is little point reversing this as
we reinstall Windows significantly more often than Linux and do not want to
deal with having to reinstall both at the same time.
When using the linux boot disk I manually recreate hda2 so that it contains
an empty FAT32 partition:
rm 2
mkpartfs 2 FAT32 100-9460
set 2 boot yes
The partition appears to be recreated succesfully, the commands are from
memmory so apologies if they are in the wrong order.
I tell the system to format the C: and reinstall the mbr. When it goes to
the dos emulator and attempts to load windows it exits with an error "Could
not create swap partition".
>From the command prompt given I cannot access C:, When running FDISK on the
drive it reports that there is only one partition, the /boot and it is a
linux partition.
I have tried simply changing the partition type to FAT32 using the
partitioning tool however this has the same problem.
If I use the whole C: option it works correctly so the problem should not be
hardware related.
Has anyone had success in a similiar situation. I believe the problem is
that the C: is not been created correctly so the format fails and the
windows swap cannot be created. My next test is to manually setup the system
and then attempt to do no partitioning and just format the C:, this is
currently been setup, and I will post results of this when it is done.
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Nich
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