I set up the partitions with Partition Magic. They show as ext2 and they
install for version 7.0 fine. The video does not matter. Asd for the hard
drive, here is the information straight from Windows 2000.
System Information report written at: 07/28/2000 06:00:22 AM
[Drives]
Item Value
Drive A:
Description 3 1/2 Inch Floppy Drive
Drive B:
Description 3 1/2 Inch Floppy Drive
Drive C:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed False
File System FAT32
Size 108.92 MB (114,210,816 bytes)
Free Space 98.15 MB (102,919,168 bytes)
Volume Name DRIVE1
Volume Serial Number 145C16D3
Partition Disk #0, Partition #0
Partition Size 109.79 MB (115,121,664 bytes)
Starting Offset 32256 bytes
Drive Description \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0
Drive Manufacturer Not Available
Drive Model Not Available
Drive BytesPerSector 512
Drive MediaLoaded True
Drive MediaType Fixed hard disk media
Drive Partitions 5
Drive SCSIBus 0
Drive SCSILogicalUnit 0
Drive SCSIPort 0
Drive SCSITargetId 0
Drive SectorsPerTrack 63
Drive Size 20472721920 bytes
Drive TotalCylinders 2489
Drive TotalSectors 39985785
Drive TotalTracks 634695
Drive TracksPerCylinder 255
Drive D:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed False
File System FAT32
Size 14.65 GB (15,727,771,648 bytes)
Free Space 11.23 GB (12,062,523,392 bytes)
Volume Name
Volume Serial Number 80CA03AE
Partition Disk #0, Partition #1
Partition Size 18.96 GB (20,357,568,000 bytes)
Starting Offset 115153920 bytes
Drive Description \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0
Drive Manufacturer Not Available
Drive Model Not Available
Drive BytesPerSector 512
Drive MediaLoaded True
Drive MediaType Fixed hard disk media
Drive Partitions 5
Drive SCSIBus 0
Drive SCSILogicalUnit 0
Drive SCSIPort 0
Drive SCSITargetId 0
Drive SectorsPerTrack 63
Drive Size 20472721920 bytes
Drive TotalCylinders 2489
Drive TotalSectors 39985785
Drive TotalTracks 634695
Drive TracksPerCylinder 255
Drive E:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed False
File System FAT32
Size 14.30 GB (15,351,709,696 bytes)
Free Space 5.31 GB (5,700,509,696 bytes)
Volume Name DRIVE2
Volume Serial Number 353311DA
Partition Disk #1, Partition #0
Partition Size 14.31 GB (15,366,758,400 bytes)
Starting Offset 7741440 bytes
Drive Description \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1
Drive Manufacturer Not Available
Drive Model Not Available
Drive BytesPerSector 512
Drive MediaLoaded True
Drive MediaType Fixed hard disk media
Drive Partitions 1
Drive SCSIBus 0
Drive SCSILogicalUnit 0
Drive SCSIPort 0
Drive SCSITargetId 1
Drive SectorsPerTrack 63
Drive Size 15374499840 bytes
Drive TotalCylinders 1986
Drive TotalSectors 30028320
Drive TotalTracks 476640
Drive TracksPerCylinder 240
Since it works for version 7 and does not work for version 7.1 there is an
obvious regression problem with the install code.
What I am asking is for a fix or a work around that does not cause me to
lose my other things. There is no way I will remove Windows 2000 form the
drive.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Craig Woods
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 9:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert]
Gilbert, how did you set up the partitions on /dev/hda? If LMDK 7.1 can not
find a valid file systems, I suspect that you set these up with another
utility. Also tell us about your hardware, esp. hard drive type, IDE
controller chip set, video card, and anything else you might think is
relevant
to your set up.....
Craig Woods
Gilbert Baron wrote:
> Excuse if this should be on newbie but I think it needs an expert to
answer
> it. It also may appear twice. I had a system problem and think it did not
> get posted the first time.
>
> Trying to install version 7.1 I get at the set up file system step
> Error can't find valid files system.
> The C: drive (hda) is already set up with a Ext2 Boot and Ext2 for system
> and Swap.
>
> If I try to install Version 7.0 there is no problem..
>
> This seems an obvious regression bug in Version 7.1.
>
> The same thing happens if you install 7.0 and try to upgrade to 7.1.
>
> Is there any fix for this?
> Can anyone say what to do?
>
> TIA
