Hi Charles,
So far so good. I have resized the partition to about 2 Gig. Next, I rebooted
the computer. The install appeared to proceed okay, then...
I think I missed a step. The penguin icon appeared at the top left corner of the
screen. It was followed by a number of lines reading my drive types etc. Then, I
was able to write down the last few lines:
hdb: drive not ready
hdb: status error: status: 0x00 {}
unable to read partition table
hdd:hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: lost interrupt
An so on...
I am sure that success is just around the corner. I had to reboot back to
Win98SE.
Roman
(And the penguin started laughing)
Charles A Edwards wrote:
> Roman
>
> PM should be on disk 3. It may be that it is listed as PQPM (PowerQuest
> PartitionMagic) rather than as PM or PartitionMagic.
>
> Charles
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 4:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] 3COM, @Home Service and Linux Mandrake 7.0
>
> > Call me stupid but I have checked all 6 CDs, and I cannot find Partition
> Magic.
> > I purchased Linux Mandrake 7.0 Power Pack.
> >
> > Roman.
> >
> > Charles A Edwards wrote:
> >
> > > have a 10 Gig. Fujitsu hard drive that was formatted using DiskGo. I
> tried
> > > using
> > > fdisk but it only acknowledged that I had 8 Gig.
> > > After reading a ton of material on hard drives, I came across an article
> > > about
> > > Win98SE, hard drives and 3rd party utilities.
> > > It stated that I should not used fdisk to partition the drive but
> DiskGo.
> > > The
> > > manufacturer provided it for free
> > >
> > > Roman
> > > Anytime I reformat any of my HDs I always use the vendor supplied
> > > software. IBM has EZDrive, Maxtor has MaxBlast and I suppose DiskGo is
> > > Fujitsu version.
> > > If all you will be installing on this drive are Win98 and Mandrake
> you
> > > do not need to partition your drive beforehand.
> > > 1) Install Win98
> > > 2)Install PM that is included with the Mandrake CDs
> > > 3)From within Win launch PM [It is a DOS based based program so
> do
> > > not worry when that message screen pops up].
> > > 4}When PM launches click on the Win partition and from the tools
> > > select Resize. I suggest setting it at around 2GB, the other 8GB will
> be
> > > free space, and then click apply.
> > > 5) Install Mandrake. Unless you tell it otherwise it will auto
> install
> > > itself in the Free space. I would suggest allowing it 2.5GB, the
> remaining
> > > 5.5GB of your HD left as Free space. Set 1 of the Mandrake supplied
> options
> > > as your MBR.
> > > 6) You are done.
> > >
> > > One other word on SystemCommander( I like and use it myself). It
> > > comes on 2 floppys and to install any part of it you have to install all
> of
> > > it. Which means once installed you have to use it as your MBR.
> > > A second point. Any time you install or re-install Win98 or
> WinNT
> > > you will also have to re-install SysComnd.
> > >
> > > Charles
> >
> >
