Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote:
> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:45:50
>
> I am sitting here in trouble with my penguin,
>
> While preforming a MDK 7.2 expert installation (Hey,..no
> smirking) 8-) I cannot make anything go into the Linux
> extended partition with this installer?
>
> I have a 2g dos on hda primary 1...and another on primary
> 2...primary 3 is a 30m linux boot....
>
> I made primary 4 a Linux extended to the end of the 20g
> IBM deskstar......all seems OK.
>
> I have clicked that installer to death but it will not
> allow me to put the rest of the partitions into the
> extended? just ...nobody home...it is not frozen or locked,
> it just will not open a panel for the next partition in the
> extended. Type linux extended partition 0x85...that is the
> correct type? right?.
>
> This is the touchey part of the install and I really don't
> want to destroy the table...but if someone would suggest an
> area to apply some force, I will tap it a little?
>
> Waiting for you
> Olly P
> Biloxi
Olly....I can think offhand of two basic approaches.
One would be to boot up on your other Linux system, login as
root and use fdisk to delete partition 4 and then log out and
reboot with the installation CD and let it do the
partitioning automatically telling it to use the
unpartitioned area of the drive at the proper time.
The other also would be to boot up on your other Linux
system, login as root and this time to use fdisk to add the
partitions inside partition 4 and then log out and reboot
with the installation CD. Then boot up with the installation
CD and when it asks, assign the mount points yourself.
--
Alan
