On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, USM Bish wrote:
|On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 06:19:40PM -0500, Farhan Ahmed wrote:
|>
|> I have a 40 Gig HDD which is partitioned such that 30 Gig
|> is for Windows and 10 for Mandrake Linux 8.1.
|>
|> I have decided to make all the 40 gig available for Linux.
|---end quoted text---
|
|Oops ... win 2k (viz HPFS/ NTFS) support is dependent upon the
|kernel. If you can currently mount these as vfat or hpfs or as
|umsdos, nothing needs to be done.Merely mount these partitions
|under Linux, and use them for data.
He doesn't want Windows anymore... and anyways there's stable ntfs write
support .. so he might as well format the partitions into ext2
|In case you cannot, there will be need for erasing existing 2k
|partitions, and making them into ext2 or your prefered type.It
|is a matter of doing the following:
|
|o Boot from stand-alone rescue disk or a floppy based distro
| like tomsrtbt or alfa-linux.
|o Change the partition(s) type to Type 83.
|o run mke2fs on these
|o These are free for installing a second distro or moving some
| of your existing partitions (like /usr or /home) to them.
Why all this trouble ???
fdisk /dev/hda
(change the filesystem types for the windoze partitions.)
mke2fs /dev/hda1
mke2fs /dev/hdaN
etc etc...
and then you'll need to add the relevant lines in your fstab.
|However, if your existing Linux is installed on an extended
|partition, it would be appropriate to re-install with at least
|the root partition ("/") on a primary.
What's the advantage you see for this ??? his current install is working
fine... if it ain't broke.. don't fix it!! :o)
Kingsly
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