from Joerg Bartels:
Hello!
I made the big step from my P60 to a AMD-monster 850MHz with 20GB HD.
With parts from the trash in my compstore it was only about 300 euro. First I
was booting with a Mandrake CD-ROM 8.0 and formating the HD with ext2.
All works fine but then I saw I need windows. I made a partition for win98,
tryed to install it -and failed. Next try and windows formated the HD! Ok
must be my mistake. I made the windowsinstall, windows works Linux was
blowing in the wind. I put the Linux-CD back and with DiskDrake I made a
Linux partition all works fine. After a time I made a drive d: with DiskDrake
and formated it under Linux with FAT32. Under windows there was the
drive but windows could not read it only after formating under windows.
Ok long talking- now my question. With some disktools windows crash on the d:
drive (eg. SequoiaView) and sometimes windows says there are errors in the
bootsektor of d: ? -It can fix it with scandisk- Under Linux the disk looks
like: /mnt/windows hda1 DOS c: /mnt/disk2 hda3 DOS d: / hda5 /swap hda6
/home hda7 Is there something wrong with that Partitontab ?
Thanks for reading!
regards Joerg -fare from installing his good old DRDOS-
(end of quote)
Why did you need Windows? I intend to prove I don't need Windows when I buy new
computer (then I probably won't need Arachne either, sorry to say).
When anybody but MS writes a program that formats the whole hard disk when you
didn't intend to, they call it a Trojan horse. When MS writes such a program,
they call it Windows. Windows has been known to format the whole hard disk on
installing, unlike DOS, OS/2, Linux, (Free, Net, Open)BSD.
I partitioned my second hard disk into three logical partitions, using Linux
fdisk. I tagged /dev/hdb5 as type 6, /dev/hdb6 as type 7, and /dev/hdb7 as
type 83. Subsequently I formatted /dev/hdb5 with OS/2 Warp 3 as FAT, /dev/hdb6
with OS/2 Warp 3 as HPFS, and /dev/hdb7 with Linux as Linux native. MS-DOS 5
and 6.22, and Win98 emergency boot diskette, couldn't access that DOS partition
("Invalid media"), Datalight didn't even recognize that partition at all, but
DR-DOS had no trouble; FreeDOS also read that DOS partition. Linux had no
problems on these partitions. MS-DOS and Windows are buggy! My reason for
downloading the Win98SE emergency boot diskette image was to see if it would
give me the same "Invalid media" message. Also, this Win98SE boot diskette
couldn't read a diskette in my then working 5.25" 1.2 MB (B:) drive, a surprise
since that 5.25" 1.2 MB diskette was readable to MS-DOS 5 and 6.22 as well as
DR-DOS and OS/2.
