On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:10:22PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
>Narain CR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied:
>
>>How did U create your 3rd partition sir???
>
>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...
On my old P166mmx machine I was using Ontrack for my 17GB HDD. I had
created the partitions using Ontrack, I think I had created 4 partitions
of 4GB each, one being primary. I have not fiddled with those partitions
using any other partitioning software. I was using windos and Linux on
that without any problems.
>
>Is this problem arising coz i have used Ontrack to make the partitions???
>
>>remember - b'cos U have ontrack - LILO cannot goto the MBR or U'r data
>>is history... Put it in the first sector of the boot partition...
>
>So, if i do this, will i still get an option of bootin in whatever i want?
>Is making a boot floppy advisable? Would that be easier and safer coz then
>i'm not screwing around with ontrack?
As far as Linux is concerned, with or without ontrack it recognises the
entire HDD ( in my case 17GB ). However for booting linux u will have to
use loadlin. I had created menus in config.sys to boot windows & linux and
one option for command prompt. This is required since Ontrack is already
there in the MBR :-)
If u boot linux through the boot floppy, linux will recognise your entire
HDD. See this time it is not loading Ontrack (since u are booting from
floppy), still your entire HDD space is recognised.
HTH
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Rajesh Fowkar
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