> Hi. > > In 10 Gigabyte space I have 4 linux partitions (besides the swap > partition), > each of them about 2.5 GB size. > One is the partition dedicated to the /home directory; > of the other three, > one contains a Mandrake installation whose bootloader is installed > in the MBR (Master Boot Record), > the other two contain Mandrake installations whose bootloaders > are installed in the first sector of the root partition. > Now, the problem is that the latest two (/dev/hda9 and /dev/hda10) > influence each other when I do new installations: > e.g., if in /dev/hda9 there is Mdk 10.1 and I install Mdk 9.1 in in > /dev/hda10, > then 10.1 becomes 9.1; > if in /dev/hda10 there is Mdk 10.1 Official and I install Mdk 10.1 > Community > in /dev/hda9, then Official becomes Community. > Is that normal? If not how to avoid it, and what am I doing wrong? > > Thanks, > Rodolfo > > > > /dev/hda6, /dev/hda7, /dev/hda8, /dev/hda9 and /dev/hda10. > Apart from /dev/hda6, which is the Linux swap partition, > and /dev/hda8, which is the partition dedicated to the home directory, > and another three partitions: > /dev/hda7, whose bootloader is installed in the MBR (Master Boot Record); > /dev/hda9 and /dev/hda10, whose bootloaders are installed in > Dumb question - are you creating new partitions when you do the install, or are you re-using partitions that are already there?
>From the sound of things, what I think is happening is that you have some free space between hda8 and hda9. When you do the install, it creats a new partition from this free space. As part of this process, the partitions get renumbered, and this is what is causing the problems. The output of "fdisk -l /dev/hda" before and after would help is solving this problem. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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