Hi.
I have been running the USMDOS version of SlackWare 7 alongside Windoze 98.
As a Linux newbie this was the easiest solution for having both systems on
one machine.
I bought a book (Using Linux, fourth edition, published by QUE), which
contained CDs for Red Hat 5.1 and Caldera OpenLinux Lite 1.2. As this book
covered non-UMSDOS versions only, I decided to take the plunge into a 'real'
(i.e, native) Linux installation.
The problem I have concerns my partitions. The hard drive (partitioned
using the version of fdisk that came with Win98 Second Edition), is split up
as follows (according to SlackWare 7 fdisk):
Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System (my comments)
/dev/hda1 2 20 143640 84 unknown Suspend to disk
/dev/hda2 * 21 297 2094120 b win95 FAT32 Win98 drive c:
/dev/hda3 298 839 4097520 f win95 extended (LBA)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
Phys=(837,239,63) logical=(838,239,63)
/dev/hda5 298 574 2094088+ b win95 FAT32 Win98 drive d:
/dev/hda6 575 737 1232248+ b win95 FAT32 Win98 drive e:
/dev/hda7 738 755 136048+ 82 Linux Swap ID mod. by linux
fdisk
/dev/hda8 756 839 635008+ 83 Linux Native ID mod. by linux
fdisk
The problem is that the Red Hat fdisk does not recognise the extended
partition, viz.:
/dev/hda3 298 839 4097520 f unknown
It does not see anything in the extended partition.
Would it be safe to use the Red Hat 5.1 version of fdisk to change the
partition ID of /dev/hda3 from f (unknown) to 5 (extended)? Would this blat
the contents of the drives within the extended partition from the Win98 side
(i.e, D: & E:), or worse, the whole lot, including C:?
Please help this clueless Linux newbie!
Regards,
Ozz.
