Jonas Widarsson wrote:
... and I'll try fips from my mandrake CD tomorrow or later this week.
...or whatever suitable utility that is suggested by mandrake install...
Jonas
I didn't really do that. Instead, I read about fips in the provided documents, and decided to try it.
* I formatted a floppy disk for restorrb data, whatever it may be.
* I booted XP into fail safe, or whatever it is called in english. It is "fels�kert l�ge" in swedish.
* I executed defrag of my 80GB...(from within console manager, "datorhantering" in swedish) Took som good long hours. Probably six or eight.
* I restarted from an old win98 boot disk to get into DOS.
* I executed fips, and after some informative messages, it exited (before doing anything) with some complaining about sector counts:
The message was something like:
Sector count (long) does not match partition. *digits* and *little different digits*. Exiting. Bye!
So It didn't work.
Some extra information about my XP Home installation procedure:
The partition was initially populated from a recovery CD provided by Acer.
The first time I started the computer it was empty and I put the CD in and rebooted.
I followed on screen instructions to format the drive (and NTFS was no option there, I tell you). I relied completely on the possibility of using fips later in chance of a linux install, (hadn't yet tried gentoo linux then) so I gave the whole 80 GB to fat32.
those 80 GB became something like 74 GiB. Then symantec ghost "installed" windows for me.
I was wondering if it is that ghost install procedure that whacked up my sector counts?
Jonas
O/T: For those of you thinking GiB was a typo: http://klabs.org/DEI/References/units/binary_prefixes.htm (couldn't find any better url)
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