I tried to help a friend of mine , with a 20 GB Hard Disk ,
to get a dual-boot Win - Lin machine.
He did not have time , so I chose RedHat7.0
I deleted all partitions on his Hard disk ,
then :
1)Created a 2GB DOS Primary Partition.
2)Installed Red Hat 7.0 which means , of my own choice , I gave it a
total of 4 GB
3)Yes , the dual - boot is fine , you get Linux , you get Win 98.
4)The next thing I do is "to get logical partitions for Windows".16 GB
still remains un-allocated.
5)I create partitions for Windows from what is shown as free space in
cfdisk.
6)I guess I had the following options :
0B Win95 FAT32 0E Win95 FAT16 (LBA) 0F Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
for making those Windoze partitions.
7)I chose either 0B or 0E but not 0F.
8)The "D:" stuff came right.
9)But when I made 2 more partitions (I chose 4 GB for the new partition1
and 5GB for the new partition3) - a very strange thing happened :
Windoze showed "E:" and "F:" alright , but they were exactly the same
! All files you have in "E:" , you have on "F:" ,etc.
They were the same even in size !
10)This obviously meant one thing :
After making "D:" , ehen I tried to make 2 more partitions ,
Actually , only one was made --- while the other was unseeable
space!
11)I used the Windoze Boot Floppy and fdisk-ed , and learnt that all the
16 GB was an extended partition !
Then where had the 20 Gb -2 - 4-" 4 " =10 GB gone ?
Should I have chosen 0F while making "D:" ?
Regards,
Shyam
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