Are you sure, I installed Mandrake 7.1 on a Toshiba
Satellite 1605 running windows98.. just popped the CD
in while already in windows, installation took care of
auto-partitioning and setting up LILO for a dual-boot
system, worked like a charm.
What I found really screws things up is *BSD->Linux,
had a bad master boot record experience.
--- pablito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you are installing linux on a clean hard drive,
> Disk Drake may be okay.
> If you are installing linux on a system with windows
> on it, like a lot of
> people will be, and are trying to create a linux
> partition out of unused
> space on the drive, sorry, Mandrake, but someone
> needs to work on this.
>
> I have found that various versions of Disk Drake
> will create partition
> errors, anything from minor errors that don't seem
> to affect the drive to
> real goofball errors on some cooker versions.
> Whatever you do, don't create
> a linux "primary" partition using Disk Drake. Disk
> Drake doesn't resize the
> extended Dos partition that the dos fdisk originally
> set up. Instead, it
> creates linux partitions in the extended Dos
> partition. This kind of
> bothers me. Shouldn't the linux partition be
> created as totally separate
> from the Dos partition? "Extended" seems to be the
> default choice in Disk
> Drake. If you try to create a "primary" linux
> partition in the extended Dos
> partition, you'll end up with a truly goofed-up
> partition table. I fixed
> this with a third party program called Partition
> Commander but was freaked
> for a short while, thinking I'd lost everything. It
> is safer to use
> something like Partition Commander to set up the
> linux partitions, and then
> install linux. You can change the default file
> system in the linux
> partition to reiserfs when you install linux.
>
> If you install linux as a secondary os on a laptop,
> careful, because you
> might not even be able to boot from a floppy if
> things go wrong. There is
> no bios setup in the Sony VAIO laptop I have, it
> seems to be a stupid
> windows program! Grub got stuck and wouldn't boot
> anything, just displayed
> a "grub" on the screen, even though I'd set the
> stupid windows Bios
> configuration to boot CD-floppy-hard disk in that
> order. The only way to
> fix this was to stick in the linux installation cd
> and reinstall or upgrade
> without selecting files so you can redo grub or
> whatever.
>
> I really think the Mandrake versions of linux are
> great -- the only ones
> that were ever easy to install and use -- and I hate
> to have to rely on
> third party software to fix things, but that's just
> the way it is.
> Partition Commander is pretty cheap (I picked one up
> for about $30).
>
>
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