I'm not familiar with how Disk Druid displays its partition information, but
probably hda2 is your extended partition, which contains logical partition
hda5 -- since it's not a filesystem, hda2 isn't shown in the listing you see.
You don't say how big the drive is, but I recall in you prior message you
said that you'd left 3 gigs for Linux. That is what Makdrake appears to be
using -- part as Linux native, part as swap. Another 3 gigs is DOS -- the 2
gig (I'm guessing here) NT boot partition and the additional 1 gig partition
in hda5.
Now unless you have more actual drive space, there is no way to make more
Linux partitions unless you remove one or more of the DOS partitions.
As to the response: " The kernel is unable to read your new partition
information. Probably becasue you modeified extended partition. You must
reboot.........". Have you tried following instructions? What happens if you
do reboot? The other possibility is that you are not writing the partition
table before you exit Disk Druid (this is an easy step to miss with fdisk
and cfdisk -- I don't know how easy it is to miss in Disk Druid).
You don't ask, but I gether you are puzzled about why a workstation install
will not fit in 3 gigs of drive space. So am I; Red Hat will do a
workstation install in under one gig. It may be a problem particular to
NT/Linux dual booting. I've never done this, but I know it has special
problems. Read the mini-HowTO on it for more details. (Find HowTos through
http://www.linuxdoc.org).
At 11:41 AM 1/25/00 -0500, Tiezhi Zhang wrote:
>Sorry, I did not state my problem clearly yesterday.
>My computer is Dell OptiPlex GX1. The OS is Window NT. I partition the
>HD by NT first and leave about 3G unpartition space for Linux. I am
>using Linux-Mandrake 6.0. This is actually the same as red hat. I booted
>up by installation CD. Then follow the installation instruction. The
>problem happened when it came to Installation Class. "What type of
>machine are you installing?" I chose Workstation at this point. I got an
>answer there is not enough space for this selection! I have to choose
>Custom. Then, I used Disk Druid to make partition. the following is the
>partition result.
>hda1 2047M DOS
>hda3 2863M Linux native
>hda4 133M linux swap
>hda5 1106M DOS
>When I tried to continue, I got the responce: The kernel is unable to
>read your new partition information. Probably becasue you modeified
>extended partition. You must reboot......... ?
>Here is my question.
>Where is hda2? why it is not displayed here?
>How to make a supplementary partition to load the /usr and /home
>directories.
>
>
>
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