Roman
It will not hurt anything so go back in to PM click on the free space,
from tools select create, and change the whole partition to Fat; then try
installing Mandrake.
Are you using DrakX to install?
It is what I used and it went right throuh on my system.But if you are
not I don't want to be giving you any miss-imformation.
Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 12:15 PM
Subject: [newbie] Resizing Drive with Partition Magic
> Hi,
>
> I am still working on my installation of Linux Mandrake 7.0. I installed
> Partition Magic Special Edition(DOS).
> Next, I resized my partition from 10 Gig to 2 Gig. This left a little
> less than 8 Gig. of free space.
>
> Partition Magic shows the following:
>
> Volume Type Size
> Used Free STATUS PRI/LOG
> C: DISK1_VOL1 FAT32 2,000.3 939.3 1,066.4
> Active Primary
> * Free space 7,765.8
> 0.0 0.0 None Primary
>
>
> I am still new to Partition Magic, and partitioning in general. I have a
> feeling that something is missing. I think that I should create another
> FAT32 partition? The beginning and ending commands in Partition Magic
> are confusing me. Linux Mandrake 7.0 installation is unable to read the
> partition table.
>
> Read out in DOS during Linux installation
>
> Partition Table
>
> hdb: drive not ready for command
> hdb: status error: status:0x00{}
> hdd:hdd lost interrupt
> hdd: lost interrupt
>
>
> Roman
> Registered Linux Mandrake User
>
>
>
>
