Hi Chuck I guess you are in UK ? Had you been in Canada or U.S. I would have offered to send you 4 of these drives as I've put them in a plastic bag in disgust. By the time I had finished they were making grinding noises.
You are correct in that it was Slackware I was using. Now that I've discovered Knoppix I anticipate I will be a lot less dangerous when I get near a hard drive. Knoppix can boot off a bootable CD and run inside RAM. It will make a swap file on a DOS partition if it can find one and you give it permission. Working on getting BootIt as recommended in this list and will report as I progress. Hopefully I will not ruin any more drives. Lorraine Chuck Gelm wrote: > > LL Phillips wrote: > > > > Regarding the statement "Each would need a separate partition, AFAIK" > > I've recently considered dual booting my W98SE hard drive which is 40G > > total size with only 20G used made up of C: primary partition and > > D,E,F,G,H all logical drives in one extended partition (each around > > 3-6G each) > > > > When I put in my W98SE boot disk to make a second PRIMARY partition I > > was not allowed because fdisk told me there was already a primary > > partition existing. > > Probably a few reasons: > - the disk has no room for another partition, PRIMARY or otherwise. > - perhaps, once an 'extended' partition is created, > no further 'primary' partitions can be created. > - Perhaps [MS|PC]DOS cannot create a second primary partition. > - perhaps you should use a 'linux' fdisk to create partitions > to install linux. ;-) > /dev/hda1 20G /WIN98SE > /dev/hda2 20G extended > /dev/hda3 3G /Debian '/' > /dev/hda6 3G /Peanut '/' > /dev/hda7 3G /share7 ;shared filesystem > /dev/hda8 3G /share8 ;whatever filesystem that both Debian and Peanut > ;can r/w. > ... > Install either of the linux distributions last as Windows(r) > overwrites the MBR. > Linux 'lilo' can boot with a menu to choose which o/s to boot > and a default o/s to boot after # seconds. > > > If I wanted to have W98SE, Debian and Peanut Linux all on the same > > drive how would I go about that. Was I wrong to put in the W98SE boot > > / rescue disk. > > I recommend using linux fdisk to create/modify partitions to install > the linux o/s into. Also, create/modify them to be a linux type; > 'second extended' and 'swap' are the only filesystems the I have used > (Type 83 linux native & type 82 linux swap). > > Yes, you can install linux into DOS type partitions, however I > do not recommend it. > > Yes, linux can read/write DOS/WIN (2.x, 3.x,9x, ME filesystems > (but can only read WIN-NT & WIN-2000 filesystems). > > Lindows (I'm an insider > > /pre-general-release-by-subscription user) will install beside windows > > if one has space on the drive, (it is called a friendly install). I > > felt it was too risky to proceed because I didn't want to damage my > > W98SE main everyday machine. Asus A7V motherboard. > > You might damage your W98SE files, but I doubt that you will damage > your 'machine'. :-| > > > Would you advise using a Linux distribution root / boot diskette > > combination to set up my hard drive. (I've ruined about 8 laptop > > drives in the past trying so am nervous). > > If you have a BIOS that can boot from a CD-ROM drive, > I recommend installing linux from a bootable CD-ROM disk. ;-) > > I'm hoping you mean that after you created linux filesystems > on a hard drive, Windows could not recognize the drive. :-| > > I'd like to hear more about how a drive was damaged by a linux > boot/root diskette. Sounds like a 'Slackware' install to me. > If you 'linux fdisk' a hard drive and place only linux type partitions > on it, it will not be recognized by DOS-Windows*. If you use > linux fdisk to create DOS/WIN partitions, DOS/WIN will recognize it > (I think it will recognize the first partition and any sequential > partitions that are DOS/WIN, but no further partitions after the first > non-DOS/WIN partition). > ;-) > > > Lorraine > > > > chuck gelm wrote: > > > > > > Hi, Geoff: > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
