Scott, you said you are putting linux at the end of the drive. How far are
you putting it at the end of the drive? keep in mind that linux (like
windows) must have the begining of its partition within the first 8
gigabytes of the drive.
----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Udell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 5:47 PM
Subject: [newbie] Install thinks 13 gig drive only 2?
> I've been trying to get Mandrake 7.0 installed for a couple of days now,
> but I keep coming up against an odd problem. I recently upgraded my
system
> with a 30 GB Maxtor 7200 RPM drive, and moved my old 13 GB Maxtor into the
> 2nd drive position. I've been trying to put Mandrake on that 2nd drive,
> but when I run the install program DrakX only ever seems to think the
drive
> is 2014 megabytes (while it recognizes that drive 1 is 30 gig just fine).
> Oddly, if I partition the drive it'll recognize the size of the partitions
> while still saying the drive is only 2 gig... that is, however, only if
the
> partitions are primary partitions--I tried, using Partition Magic, making
> an extended partition and setting up Linux-related logical partitions, but
> DrakX says, "I can't read your partition table, it's too corrupted for me.
> :(" I finally just made 4 primary partitions (one for Windows at the
upper
> range of the drive), an 11 meg /boot, a 126 meg swap, and a 7+ gig /
> partition (at least, that's what I named them in Partition Magic, and
DrakX
> seemed happy enough with them... although it still thought the drive
itself
> was just 2 gig). However, I can't seem to make any of them bootable (even
> though they're low on the drive), although that could well be my lack of
> understanding of Lilo (and, to throw into the mix, I've got BootMagic
> installed too, on Drive 1--I thought it would be able to recognize Linux,
> but it doesn't do so automatically, and when I try to force it to look to
> one of the partitions I set up, it just stops on boot).
>
> So right now I'm stuck using a boot disk, and for some reason that's a
> *very* slow way of getting up and running. I'd obviously like to get this
> all set up so I could boot from the HD; even better, I'd like to figure
out
> why DrakX isn't recognizing the size of my drive. (Note: last year I
> installed RedHat 5.2 on this system, only at that time the 13 gig drive
was
> drive #1, and I put Linux on a set of partitions on an 8 gig drive; I had
> none of this trouble then on basically the same hardware--although I do
now
> have 256 meg of RAM and a new video card. However, I don't believe this
is
> a Mandrake-specific problem, as I also tried that old Red Hat last night,
> and Disk Druid and Fdisk on that package seemed to have the same or
similar
> problems.)
>
> Any help would be appreciated!
>
> Scott Udell
>
>
>
