Doing the partitioning at the outset - independent of Windows install - deperplexes its file system. It will use all of what it claims as C:\ thereafter, & I'm not surprised to see an external intervention being ignored. We need more test results from Lin/XP partitioners, to safeguard new user's data - Linux will get a bad rap if we can't :-]
Nick Rout wrote:
This isn't a default install step for Win98 - you must have used a Win bootdisk first if this is true, which I doubt.*nick struggles to remember*
It was a virgin ex-lease machine, no wait it might have had a vfat partition with the barest dos system ie command.com and not much else.
I installed w98 first and _probably_ asked it's fdisk to only take half the disk, but I am very unsure:
More likely Linux's fdisk or parted or something was used after the Winstall, to make Linux space.
Now, both Windows & Linux seem smart enough to have local partition info integrated into their OS files. It doesn't surprise me if Windows causes problems when it's partition gets 'amended'. The question is, which OS install initiated the FS failure? Careful choice required here.
Nick (thinking to buy a series of notebooks to keep with each computer in next month's stationery order)
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:58:24 +1200
InfoHelp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Did you partition the drive before or after the Win98 install?
i.e. this could be a resizing issue that we all need to learn from.
