On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:11:43 +0100, Xavier Chitnis wrote:
>owever, when I get to the disk
>partition stage, it says my partition table is too corrupted to be read. If
>I select Automatic partitioning, it doesn't seem to realise there is a FAT
>partition that needs to be resized.
Sounds like M$ has made a mess of your HDD. I've found that to be all too
common. The safest thing would be to backup your data, blow everything away and
have Mandrake FDisk create you a FATxx partition to restore to.
If you need logical partitions for M$, make sure after the install of Linux you
flip the partition type on partition 5 to type F which is a M$ extended
partiton. Otherwise M$ can not read Fat32 partitions beyond X MB on your HDD. I
think it is the 1024 cyl game again.
Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
