I had 6 gigs of a 12 gig hd in my laptop free and defragged. WHen I let diskdrake resize it, it could only find me 500mb for the linux partition.
I don't have many free hours until finals are over, so my laptop still runs windy. Workstation is 8.2 and happy though! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Plug Head" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 4:46 PM Subject: [Cooker] PCMCIA Netcard works! Partitioning is still ugly tho... > I was pleasantly surprised when I installed 8.2 final on my notebook today, > and it picked up the (Linksys) netcard correctly and worked on the first > boot! I even got Samba running in like 10 minutes (of course I'm pretty > familiar with smb.conf at this point...) Good job(!) on that one, I never > though you'd get it fixed for release. > > On the down side, partitioning still seems a little messed up. The biggest > problem is that it doesn't like multiple primary partitions (even though it > will happily create them, if you install with an already existing partition.) > > I was a little nervous about doing the install on my laptop, when it said > things like "ok to loose partition" <NO!>, then went on to diskdrake and it > claimed I had a 30+g hard drive (it's 20g!) But feeling brave (reckless), I > decided to chance it, and it seems to have worked just fine (haven't checked > to see if windows still boots, but it'd be a small loss.) > > On my desktop system, however, I just cannot get past the partition error > message. Even after I said NO to loose partition, it kept comming up with an > error--something about "_blanking_" (? looked like a function name.) After I > hit OK a few times, I gave up and rebooted my machine. Thinking Partition > Magic might fix it (it has in the past), I let it make it's fixes (there > _seemed_ to be one for each time I hit "OK"), only to be greeted by a large > yellow bar representing my HD with the words "BAD PARTITION" on it... Ugh... > (Note however that both 8.2rc1 and Windoze will still boot and don't seem > affected.) > > So, if you'd like to look into this problem, let me know if there is any > relevant information I can send you (partition tables, logs, exact messages, > etc.) > > Thanks, > -Jason > > P.S. Maybe releated. cfdisk chokes unless I give it the original geometry > that was in the bios--in which case it properly reports non-overlapping > partitions. (I tried changing the bios to match what sfdisk thought it > should be, but no joy.) Is there some way that I can specify the correct > geometry during install? > > -- > > ========================= > 'Never trust a ruler who puts his faith in tunnels and bunkers and escape > routes. The chances are that his heart isn't in the job.' > (Guards! Guards!) > > >
