>>As far as Linux is concerned, with or without ontrack it recognises the
>> entire HDD ( in my case 17GB ).
I cou;d not achieve this. If i boot directly from the cdrom, and when i
reach disk druid, he was showing only 33gb as the hdd size..
what i'm doin is waiting for ontracks blue screen and then i'm booting from
the floppy...
so in disk druid i'm getting the hdd size as 40 gigs, but no partition to
install to...
Narain CR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Cool - so now that you have left 4gigs of free space for linux - fire up
>>the install - get into fdisk and just use the option to create the
>>partitions - it is actually pretty simple...
Unfortunatley not for a newbie like me. I dunno crap about fdisk. I've
installed a system before using disk druid only.
Could someone walk me through fdisk steps.
TIA
regards
Mayuresh
----- Original Message -----
From: Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH] rh 7.1 install problems
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:10:22PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
>
> Hi Mayuresh,
OK - got it... What U have made are the primary partition for your "C:"
and then an extended partition which has your 2 logical drives ("D:" and
"E:") - these two are not actually partitions... So you have not created a
partition for your linux installation.
Cool - so now that you have left 4gigs of free space for linux - fire up
the install - get into fdisk and just use the option to create the
partitions - it is actually pretty simple...
Assuming U are booting off the CDROM drive at this stage - make sure U get
the blue-ontrack screen *BEFORE* the CD boots - if it does not - then
unfortunately - U have to create the bootable disk and boot off it - once
again remember - U *CANNOT* boot off the floppy by just restarting the
system with a floppy in the drive... wait till the blue-ontrack screen
appears - and then press "spacebar" to boot off the floopy (don't worry it
gives you time to insert the floppy into the drive *AFTER* you press
"spacebar")...
Else if U have winduz 98 (not ME), then boot to *PURE* dos by pressing
'F8' and then run "g:\dosutils\autoboot.bat" (assuming G is your CD
drive)...
>>> Is this problem arising coz i have used Ontrack to make the
>>> partitions???
what problem??? You don't have any problems...
>>> So, if i do this, will i still get an option of bootin in
>>> whatever i want?
Of course!!! what did U think???
Cheers,
Narain.
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Mayuresh wrote:
I had to first create this partitions using Ontrack coz otherwise i could'nt
get winduz to recognize any partitions.
So the first three partitions i made using ontrack, then after installing
windows, i used Partition MAgic 6 to organize everything properly, and thru
that i made the last 4 somethingodd gb as unallocated...
Is making a boot floppy advisable? Would that be easier and safer coz then
i'm not screwing around with ontrack?
>
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