FAO: Probably Pixel Just tried to install LM7.2 on a machine already containing NT4 (ugh) and encountered an interesting possible error. NT setup was three primary partitions and no extended partition, with free space at the end of the disk. Having shrunk the third partition (via copy all files off, delete & recreate partition, etc.), I created an empty extended partition in the remaining free space. Disk at this point contained: hda1 FAT16 hda2 NTFS, active hda3 NTFS hda4 Extended partition, with no logical partitions. [hda4 extended from below 1024 cylinders to above 1024 cylinders, which is probably not relevant] Booted into LM7.2 install, got to the stage of partitioning disks and it told me that the partition table was corrupt. Running fdisk from console 2 gave an amusing error: it produced an endless stream of error messages that (IIRC) said "ignoring empty partition 5". Rebooted into NT, deleted the empty extended partition, leaving: hda1 FAT16 hda2 NTFS, active hda3 NTFS hda4 Empty Restarted LM7.2 installation and it was perfectly happy. Easy enough problem to fix, but the message "Your partition table is corrupt. I can erase all your partitions if you like. OK/Cancel?" (which is fairly close to what did appear) might be scary for newbies. VERSION in the root of the install tree says Linux-Mandrake Odyssey-i586 20001027 15:20. It was rsync'ed to sunsite.uio.no some time ago. The machine in question is no longer in my possession and I don't have any other machines with NT on, so I can't reproduce the situation exactly, but the information above should be sufficient. HTH, Michael
