Linux-Misc Digest #759, Volume #19 Tue, 6 Apr 99 07:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: C++ Heeeelp!!!! (Michael Powe)
PCFNS problem (Alain Rime)
Arkeia backup problem (Alain Rime)
Re: CD Image (Glenn T. Jayaputera)
Re: monitoring ppp link (Ben Short)
Re: RH 5.2 won't load x-windows ("Ron van Middendorp")
Re: Help ! How do I mount audio cdroms ? (Brian Stephen Faivre)
Re: Framebuffer woes (Hannes Eriksson)
Broken MBR ("Antti Iivanainen")
Re: Mounting SCSI CDROM (Kenny McCormack)
monitoring ppp link (shu ling)
Re: GNOME and GIMP living happily together? (D. J. Birchall)
Re: VMWARE BEWARE ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
CD Image (Jean-Fran�ois)
menuconfig is not working (Erwin Odendaal)
Extracting RPM's (Henrik Berg)
Re: Unzip problem (Michael Powe)
Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment.... ("Jan Johansson")
Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment.... (John Thompson)
Rosegarden with external synthesizer ? (**Nick Brown)
Re: Newbie's Linux Manual available by E-mail (Don Martin)
Re: Partitions (Ulf Bohman)
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: C++ Heeeelp!!!!
Date: 06 Apr 1999 01:05:18 -0700
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>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Chajkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michael> The introductory book that I swear by is: How to C++
Michael> Program Dietel/Dietel
Actually, it's <C++ How to Program>. I hope it's better than their
volume on C, <C How To Program>. I'm using that as a textbook and I
don't like it one bit. I would say, though, that it's mainly a
`companion' volume for their series; I don't think they're really
serious C programmers. The final 1/3 of the book is devoted to
showing why C++ is `a better C' (their words). I have the impression
that the main reason for the book is to lead the reader away from C to
C++. So, quite possibly the C++ book would benefit from their real
interest in the subject.
mp
powered by GNU/linux since Sept 1997
- --
Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
"Would John the Baptist have lost his head if his name was Steve?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alain Rime)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.network
Subject: PCFNS problem
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 17:18:24 GMT
Hi,
I have Linux SuSE 6.0 installed on my machine called Serverunix1. With
a client machine (mulan) running Windows 98 with NFS Reflection, I try
to get access on the linux server. On the linux server, the following
files are configured as below :
/etc/hosts
138.0.0.16 mulan.lc.ch mulan
138.0.0.20 serverunix1.lc.ch serverunix1
138.0.0.21 serverunix2.lc.ch serverunix2
127.0.0.1 localhost
/etc/exports
/nfsdir mulan(rw,no_root_squash) serverunix2(rw,no_root_squash)
/pcnfsd.conf
uidrange 0-60002
The services nfs, pcnfs and bwnfs are also started.
With my Win98, I can list the files in nfsdir but I cannot read them
or create new ones. I got a share violation error, although I have the
right permissions on them. If I try to access these same files from
another Linux server (serverunix2) mounting the nfsdir, I can do all
that I want with the files.
Can someone tell me what's wrong ? Why do I get this "Share violation
error" ?
Thanks for help.
Alain.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alain Rime)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardawe,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Arkeia backup problem
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 08:14:56 GMT
Hi,
I have Linux SuSE 6.0 installed on my machine. I want to use Arkeia as
backup program. I have a colorado 4/8GB IDE drive. I have define my
device /dev/ht0 as STD_QIC in Arkeia. If I make a backup, all seems
good. But when I try to make a restore, it doesn't restore anything
(and there are no error). I also try to use "readarkeia" to restore
directly or arkrstdb to restore the index, but I cannot restore
anything. If I use the dump function to make a backup on the HP
Colorado, it works.
Can someone help me ?
Thanks for your help.
Alain.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glenn T. Jayaputera)
Subject: Re: CD Image
Date: 6 Apr 99 09:19:54 GMT
On Tue, 06 Apr 1999 08:56:10 GMT, Jean-Fran�ois <jf@jeffy.> wrote:
>How can I create a cd image ?
>I tried to cat /dev/cdrom > image.iso but the cdrom was getting mad.
>I tried to dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cdimage.iso but this neither worked.
>Do you have any idea (or soft) to help me ?
>Please mail me to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Thanks
You have to use mkisofs to create an iso image. man mkisofs
will tell you the details on the params
glenn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Short)
Crossposted-To: tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: monitoring ppp link
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 19:19:44 +1000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Is there any utility,as in Windows, that will report the real time
> information
> (speed, connected time, bytes send/rcv'ed) of the ppp link?
>
>
>
Theres a program called IPTraf floating around somewhere, but that will
do what you want ;)
--
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-
Ben Short mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shortboy Productions http://www.shortboy.ddns.org
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From: "Ron van Middendorp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 5.2 won't load x-windows
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 10:18:37 +0200
Reply-To: "Ron van Middendorp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Did you run Xconfigurator first?
Frank Conte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm trying to install X-windows on top of a RH 5.2 installation. I can't
> get startx to start up. Nothing happens. What gives?
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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 00:57:59 -0700
From: Brian Stephen Faivre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help ! How do I mount audio cdroms ?
Hello,
I had the same question when I first started using Linux... The answer
is "you don't!" Just place the audio CD in the CD-ROM and start the CD
Player... You should be set!
Hope this helps,
Brian
"Eightfold�" wrote:
> I'm running the KDE desktop. There is a "CD Player" . I've read
> the docs and "HOW-TOs" and can't find anything about mounting and
> playing audio cdroms.....
>
> thanks for the help
> *****Microsoft Windows.... a VIRUS with mouse support*****
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From: Hannes Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Framebuffer woes
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 00:38:46 +0200
The problem is that VESA FB cannot change resolution and/or color-depth
while up-running.
All other FrameBuffer drivers can do that. If you realy need framebuffer X
it's recommended to use _any_other_driver_ then VESA
Matthias Warkus wrote:
> I'm back with more info about my problems with the VESA framebuffer.
> First of all, the FBdev X server doesn't seem to work in any colour
> depth greater than 8 bits.
>
> Then, whenever I try to switch modes with fbset, I get this:
>
> [root@audrey]: ~# fbset -xres 1024 -yres 768
> ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument
>
> Can you help me with this?
>
> mawa
> --
> When you look at yourself in an aberrational mirror, you see your real
> self, looking back at the twisted you.
> -- Dr. (?) Bob Miller, "The Aberrational View of the Universe",
> Twisted Science, Heat, National Public Radio
btw.
I have the same problem myself. I'm trying to learn how to program VESA
BIOS X-tensions so I can write a patch for the kernel. It *must* be
possible... ...some way... ...I hope.
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From: "Antti Iivanainen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc
Subject: Broken MBR
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 12:36:37 +0300
Dear all,
I have skrewed up the master boot record of my hard drive and need
help. The goal was to have a NT/Linux dual system but the linux
installation was a catastrophy. A brief history:
- had a working NT4(SP3) installation on FAT-16 (1 GB) partition on
hda1
- tried to install RH-linux-5.2 by FTP over the internet
- consecutive trials of RH-installation all aborted at some point with
signal 11 after I had made new partitions hda2 (linux native 500M) and
hda3 (linux swap 47M) and formatted them using the RH installation
diskettes
- as of now, I am unable to boot NT and in linux (loaded from boot and
repair floppies), unable to mount hda2
- according to NT repair diskettes NT is OK as well as MBR (!)
- linux boot time error messages (with kernel 2.0.36 from
RH-installation diskettes):
- set_multmode: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
- set_multmode: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
- report from partinfo as well as hexdump from first sector in hda are
attached at the end of my message
My system:
- PII350 with MSI6190 MB (100MHZ Bus, 440BX AGP -chipset, Award's BIOS
v. 4.51PG)
- Seagate ST-36531A hd (Ultra ATA-3; C,H,S=840,243,63=>6.5GB; BIOS as well
as partinfo and linux fdisk report translation (790, 255, 63); LBA mode
enabled in BIOS
- cdrom (IDE/ATAPI)
I would greatly appreciate any help in diagnosing/curing this mess.
--Antti
***************************************************************************
Report from partinfo:
Partition Information Program
May 12 1997 - DOS Version
Copyright (c) 1994-1997, PowerQuest Corporation
Disk 0: 790 Cylinders, 255 Heads, 63 Sectors/Track.
The BIOS supports INT 13h extensions for this drive.
====================== Partition Tables ================================
Partition ----Begin---- ------End----- Start Num
Sector # Boot Cyl Head Sect FS Cyl Head Sect Sect Sects
======= = ==== === ==== ==== == ==== ==== ==== ======= =======
0 0 80 254 1 6 06 126 254 63 63 2040192
Error #106: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
ucBeginSector expected to be 1, not 6.
Error #116: Starting sector of partition is inconsistent.
ulStartSect = 63
Begin C,H,S = 4080578
Error #110: Number of sectors in partition is inconsistent.
ucSectors = 2040192
end - begin = 4292926973
0 1 00 127 0 1 83 190 254 63 2040255 1028160
0 2 00 191 0 1 82 196 254 63 3068415 96390
========================================================================
Disk 0: 6196.9 Megabytes
========================= Partition Information ========================
Volume Partition Partition Start Total
Letter:Label Type Status Size MB Sector # Sector Sectors
============= =============== ======== ======= ======= = ======= =======
C:NO NAME FAT16B Pri,Boot 996.2 0 0 63 2040192
Linux Ext2 Pri 502.0 0 1 2040255 1028160
Linux Swap Pri 47.1 0 2 3068415 96390
Free Space Pri 4651.6 None - 3164805 9526545
*************************************************************************
Hexdump from first 512 bytes on hda (output from 'dd if=/dev/hda
bs=512 count=1 conv=swab | hexdump')
0000000 fa33 c08e 007c 007c 5007 5007 fbfc fbfc
0000010 06b9 06b9 f2a5 f2a5 ea1d 0600 00be be07
0000020 b304 803c 8074 0e80 751c 751c 10fe 10fe
0000030 efcd efcd 148b 148b 4c02 8bee 83c6 10fe
0000040 cb74 1a80 3c00 74f4 be8b 06ac 3c00 740b
0000050 0700 0700 cd10 cd10 5eeb f0eb febf 0500
0000060 7cb8 7cb8 0102 57cd 135f 730c 33c0 cd13
0000070 4f75 edbe ebd3 ebd3 06bf 06bf fe7d 813d
0000080 75c7 75c7 ea00 ea00 7c00 0049 616c 616c
0000090 2070 2070 7469 7469 6f6e 6f6e 6162 6162
00000a0 6c65 0045 7272 6f72 206c 6f61 6469 6e67
00000b0 206f 7065 7261 7469 6e67 2073 7973 7465
00000c0 6d00 4d69 7373 696e 6720 6f70 6572 6174
00000d0 696e 6720 7379 7374 656d 0000 0000 0000
00000e0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
*
00001b0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 8001 8001
^^^^ <----- Are these the (only)
00001c0 06fe 06fe 3f7e 3f00 0000 8021 1f00 0000 problem bytes ?
^^^^
00001d0 017f 83fe 3fbe bf21 1f00 40b0 0f00 0000
00001e0 01bf 82fe 3fc4 ffd1 2e00 8678 0100 0000
00001f0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 55aa 55aa
^^^^
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenny McCormack)
Subject: Re: Mounting SCSI CDROM
Date: 6 Apr 1999 00:42:17 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Glenn T. Jayaputera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello, recently I got a SCSI CDROM and I would like to use it in my
>Linux box. The box has 2940 + 2 SCSI HDs and everything works fine.
>My problem is I cannot mount this CDROM, it complains about not
>a block device. With my HDs, I use /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 but
>I cannot use sdc1 for my CDROM. Am I doing something stupid here?
Not stupid - just dyslexic.
Try /dev/scd1 instead (get it? SCSI CD 1) of /dev/sdc1
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From: shu ling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: monitoring ppp link
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 16:20:29 +0800
Is there any utility,as in Windows, that will report the real time
information
(speed, connected time, bytes send/rcv'ed) of the ppp link?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D. J. Birchall)
Subject: Re: GNOME and GIMP living happily together?
Date: 5 Apr 1999 14:32:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jason T. Breitweg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have a freshly installed SuSE 6.0 system without any trace of GNOME,
>GIMP, or GTK on it. I want to know the best way of going about
>installing GNOME and GIMP such that they won't have any conflicting
>problems. I think it would be nice if I could separate each one off
>by itself (including all the libraries) so that if I wanted to remove
>it it would be easy. Any suggestions?
I had some doubts about this myself, since I've had GIMP for a
while and had read that GTK+ 1.1 didn't get along with it. But
GTK+ 1.2 (which GNOME uses) does.
So, you just upgrade your GTK+ (and GLIB and whatever else) to
1.2, install the GNOME stuff, and if you decide to lose the GNOME
stuff, you just don't remove the bits GIMP depends on.
-Dan
--
Daniel Birchall, VP - Technology, Digital Facilities Management.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is no longer a real address for me,
since a bunch of illiterates spammed it! :) My username is djb.
http://www.scream.org/maisha/ is the Unofficial Maisha Fan Site.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: VMWARE BEWARE
Date: 6 Apr 1999 10:03:14 GMT
Alan Fried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles H. Chapman) wrote:
>>
>>You misunderstood what they were telling you. You can run Windows 95, 98
>>and NT and a variety of other operating systems as -guest- operating
>>systems with Linux as the host operating system -right now-. The
>>only -host- operating system avaiable now is Linux (and possibly NT -- not
>>sure if they released the beta for NT yet).
>>
> Yes you are right but what can I do to avoid this application turning my
> win95 partition from a FAT32 table to a FAT 16 Table.
Well, the easiest way is to _NOT_ run in native disk mode. Create a virtual
disk (using vmware's configuration manager), and install win95 into that disk.
You can specify your raw disk (i.e. your already installed win95 partition)
as a second disk -- a D drive. At this point, VMware (the company) is still
calling running in raw disk mode an experimental feature. See
http://www.vmware.com/support/rawdevices.html for more details.
--
====================================
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: jf@jeffy. (Jean-Fran�ois)
Subject: CD Image
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 08:56:10 GMT
How can I create a cd image ?
I tried to cat /dev/cdrom > image.iso but the cdrom was getting mad.
I tried to dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cdimage.iso but this neither worked.
Do you have any idea (or soft) to help me ?
Please mail me to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks
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From: Erwin Odendaal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: menuconfig is not working
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 10:57:11 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I want to configure my Kernel for linuxppc on a Mac G3, but "make
menuconfig", "make xconfig" and "make config" are all not working...
What can be the problem and how can I solve this?
E.R. Odendaal.
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From: Henrik Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Extracting RPM's
Date: 06 Apr 1999 11:02:34 +0200
Help, what's wrong here??
Until just recently, I have had no problems extracting RPM's.
But suddenly, I just get this message:
Cannot extract package xxx.rpm
What shall I do???
--
Henrik Berg
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unzip problem
Date: 06 Apr 1999 01:09:31 -0700
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>>>>> "Dinger" == Dinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dinger> I'm a linux newbie and i'm trying to decompress a .tar
Dinger> file from the floppy drive. I figured out how to mount the
Dinger> floppy drive, but I can't seem to work out how to
Dinger> decompress the archive. Could anyone give me any help? I'm
Dinger> using Redhat Linux 5.2, kernel version 2.2.2.
If the file is file.tar.gz or file.tgz, then try
tar zxf file.tar.<ending>
If the file is just file.tar, then use
tar xf file.tar
mp
powered by GNU/linux since Sept 1997
- --
Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
"Would John the Baptist have lost his head if his name was Steve?"
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From: "Jan Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment....
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 12:43:13 +0200
John Thompson wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Jon-o Addleman wrote:
>
>> And interesting case: there's a bug in my version of windows (the very
>> first commercial release of win95). Basically it amounts to this: you
>> can't use the "save password" button on dialup networking unless you
>> have microsoft networks installed (which I never use). This bug
>> persisted for almost 5 years, through many different versions. It may
>> even still be in windows 98, though I certainly haven't tried it -
>> that OS gives me the willies....
>
>So, how do you know that it's a "bug" and not simply
>"working as designed?"
Correct. Not a bug, that was the way MS wanted it.. and it makes sense to me
atleast.
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment....
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 20:31:19 -0600
Jon-o Addleman wrote:
> And interesting case: there's a bug in my version of windows (the very
> first commercial release of win95). Basically it amounts to this: you
> can't use the "save password" button on dialup networking unless you
> have microsoft networks installed (which I never use). This bug
> persisted for almost 5 years, through many different versions. It may
> even still be in windows 98, though I certainly haven't tried it -
> that OS gives me the willies....
So, how do you know that it's a "bug" and not simply
"working as designed?"
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Rosegarden with external synthesizer ?
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 12:47:12 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm trying to use Rosegarden 2.1 with an SB16. It can record from my
Yamaha PSR-230 keyboard, but when it plays back, it's always to the
SB16's onboard MIDI chip, not to the external instrument. What do I
have to do to get it to talk to the external keyboard ? Other MIDI
programs talk to the PSR-230 just fine.
--
===============================================================
Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)fr)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Martin)
Subject: Re: Newbie's Linux Manual available by E-mail
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 10:56:45 GMT
A am a comptete newbie to Linux and would appreciate a copy please.
Thank you and God Bless!
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 22:55:00 GMT, "The Bits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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>
>'More things should be free'
>
>Laurence Hunter
>
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>
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From: Ulf Bohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partitions
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 12:55:58 +0200
Well, it appears only to affect logical drives in the 'extended block'. I've got
primary partitions created with Linux fdisk doing OK with PM40. Are you sure
you've got logical drives created by Linux fdisk? All I know is that I and lots
of others encountered this problem when trying to create a bootable logical
Linux native partition.
This is from Powerquest's TechSupport:
""""""""""""""""
Error 120 The logical drive chain is incompatible
This error occurs under some operating systems when
logical partitions
are not chained together in the expected order. DOS,
OS/2, Windows
95 and Windows NT require that logical partitions be
chained together in
ascending order. Some other operating systems do not
require this. For
example, some versions of the Linux FDISK utility chain
logical partitions
together in the order they are created. This error
message identifies a very
dangerous situation; using the DOS FDISK in this
situation can cause loss
of one or more partitions.
To correct the problem you will need to backup the
partitions and then
delete and recreate them and restore the data. You may
need to use the
same partitioning program that you used to create the
partitions in order
to delete them.
"""""""""""""""""
/Ulf
Charles Sullivan wrote:
> Ulf Bohman wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >> Rule of thumb that I've discerned from reading similar posts: ONLY use
> >> MS fdisk (or Partition Magic) to create and delete Windows partitions,
> >> ONLY use Linux fdisk to create and delete Linux partitions. In your
> >> case, try deleting the extended partition and re-creating it with Linux
> >> fdisk.
> >
> >Not allways. When creating a logical partition in Linux fdisk the partition
> table
> >gets unreadable to Partition Magic because Linux fdisk links partitions
> >differently than DOS (by creation date rather than physical location). To
> get a
> >root partition accessible for PartMagic in the extended block you have to
> create
> >it and format it in PartMagic and then just point it out during Linux
> install.
> >I've heard about DiskDruid being unable to read extended partitions but
> can't seem
> >to remember the solution.
>
> I'm confused (and not for the first time). PM 4.0 reads my partitions
> created by
> Linux fdisk (ver 2.8 - in RH5.2) just fine. And how can partitions be
> linked by date
> if there's no location pointer?
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