That's exactly what is supposed to happen - no?! Primary partitions first (C - hda1, D - hdb1 ...) and only then the logical ones?
Couldn't you just create another primary fat partition (10MB) before the one that was seen as "D"? Or even on h-d-a ? ( can anybody tell me how to write h-d-a in outlook without it changing it automatically to had?) Just curious, Tal. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linux-il-bounce@;cs.huji.ac.il] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 5:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: installing RH7.3 upon Win2k this is my expirience with installing RedHat linux on Win2k. (I write this in case some one is interested to know about my expirience, but any comments are welcomed) I've been asked to install Linux on a brand new machine which had 2 hard drives 60 GB each. Win2k was aleready installed on the computer. The drives were divided in 2 parts 30 G each (total 4 vfat partitions) . I've decided to keep the partitions on first drive as they were (I hoped that disk C would remain C, and E would became D). I repartitioned the second HD using disk druid programm during RH installation. When rebooted to Win, I was shocked to discover that win is still looking for disk D on the second drive. This mess caused windows to work VERY slow. I used Partition magic to check what's wrong with the drives. On startup it complained on some errors on the partition table and suggested to fix them. I agreed. Using partition magic I saw that win2k treated the first partition on the HD no 2 (/boot under linux) as D, and naturally couldn't read from it. I couldn't think of anything else but deleting this partition, creating new one instead (ext2), and re-installing linux. As it seems to me right now, everything is working good Stay cool Boris Gorelik ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
