On November 26, 2002 03:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Brian, > I partitioned into 2 partitions using XP for XP and left the 3rd > partition unnamed.(which is for mandrake). I tried formatting the first 2 > partitions with NTFS and FAT32. Still got the same problem when Mandrake > setup couldn't seem to detect it properly and gave me those error messages. > That's all i guess. > > Sean > Hi Sean;
I'm not quite certain what's causing the aggravating or why, but I spent an unproductive hour (or four) on the phone with a friend last week trying to solve it. Then I got cranky and gave him different instructions and it worked. The instructions were (condensed) as follows: Fresh install, wiping all _OS_ partitions; but keeping any personal data (pictures, music, movies, etc) on a 'shared' FAT32 partition previously available. This is easier for totally fresh installs but the steps are the same: First; boot to Mandrake install disk 1, choose install, expert, any partitions visible in the diskdrake screen except the one that contains the data desired for 'save' are _individually_ deleted, use the desired partition sizes already determined for XP and make those partitions as FAT32 (you'll format these later during XP install anyway, and you wanted to convert one to NTFS but this will be easiest for now), make the desired Linux partitions in whatever file system format you've chosen. ext3, Reiser, XFS, JFS, whatever you desire. If you want a seperate /boot be sure it's ext2 or ext3 since you'll only get grief at the make boot disk stage later and you don't want to skip that do you? :-) format **only** the Linux partitions and allow diskdrake to write the partition table to disk, exit the install since you'll have to boot from the Mandrake install disk later anyway and it's a waste of time for now otherwise. XP (like all things Microsoft) doesn't play nice with others in other words, boot from the XP install disk and work only with the FAT32 section of the drive that you allocated for XP install. (2 partitions I believe you said?) Don't allow Windows to touch the rest of the disk except for recognition of any pre-existing "shared data" FAT 32 partitions. Be careful it doesn't try to format that or you'll hate it later almost as much as I do now. ;) Once finished with that "expert" install Mandrake as usual, avoiding the XP partitions except for providing mount point information; then install packages as desired. In my friend's situation he wanted XP to be default so that his wife and kids wouldn't freak when exposed to Mandrake. I walked him through editing lilo during a later call. I hope this is of some use. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire
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