On Saturday 07 August 2004 05:04 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: > On Saturday 07 August 2004 14:28:02, BJ Tracy wrote: > > Hello All (again), > > I'm gonna chop this up to respond to specific points. Hope that doesn't > mess with anyone's mind. Thanks for your help,,,,,I don't mind chopping
> What do you mean you had Mandrake do the partitioning? See below for an > explanation of the question. What I mean here is I chose the "Use Free Space" This option will perform an automatic partitioning of your blank drive(s). If you use this option there will be no further prompts. > > NOW- I go into system/config/mountpoints and look at the drives in there > > partition state and it is strange. > > hda - has ext3 and swap details > > hdb - has NOTHING for details > > hdc - has ext3 ans swap details Looking at hdb is says DOS Drive C:(just a guess) but it does not have any partitions on it. > The mistake(s) you made was probably two-fold. First; when you "had > Mandrake do the partitioning" did you do "Use Free Space" or "Erase Entire > Disk" or Custom Partitioning" or??? I used "Use Free Space" ....not thinking about the Mandrake I had on the other disk. SO should I reinstall using "Erase Entire Disk" and will this work for all three drives? > Also depending on the security level you chose at install you may never see > the other disks/partitions in user land. I chose Standard. > Before I make another point (and there is more than one to be made) is it > your intent to *never* put Windows back on this system? No more Windows. I currently have 3 pc's and a laptop in my office on a simple LAN, the other two pc's and laptop still have XP on them but my plan is to move away from Windows. > I don't see why you'd need to start over unless you aren't happy with the > partition tables you have now. There may be ways to correct any problems > without anything so drastic. You must have harddrake starting at boot > (Mandrake Control Centre, System, Services) and it's trying to guess what > you want done with all that drive space and possibly conflicting mount > points, etc. plus the fact you probably have a boot record on drive hdc and > another on hda now as well.. The simplest thing to do will depend upon the > answers to the questions above. Plus others. Talk to us, please. Right now the system in question does not have any data on it, just the setup configs and I had started personalizing the desktop....so If I have to start again, not that big a deal. (more coffee) I just want to get the foundation of the OS correct and right now I can see I messed up. Thanks for you help, Standing by, bj > Post the answer, give details of the system and what you intend to do and > someone with a brain will definitely jump in and correct me. Assuming I > have a chance for another reply. (lol) OK? > > Regards; > Charlie > P.S.; Now that I've tried to start the ball rolling to help you please get > rid of the Reply To: setting in your K-Mail client. It's a pain to "demand" > a personal reply on a community help list. Please. > C.
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