I only have one partition that occupies the entire disk. If I can't find a
solution to this. Partition Magic may be the only way out for a smooth
installation.
Mark Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've never tried, but as it is basically a scaled-down version of PM it
> should. This may be the only option if ME occupies the entire HDD in FAT32.
> You just have to remember to leave enough room for installing apps and the
> ME swap file, which can be pretty big. You can gauge the size of the swap
> file by going to a DOS prompt CD to the Windows directory and do a DIR for
> either *.swp (old Win9x) or Pagefile.sys for Win2K type shells.
>
> If you are familiar with FDISK and do not have one partition that occupies
> the entire disk you can select option 4 from the menu ("Display Partition
> Information") This will show you where Windows lives and how much space it
> is using. You can then create an extended DOS partition in the free space
> (most likely, this will only allow you to create 1 partition though)
>
> The /mnt/mnt/ issue may occur because the Windows partition is referred to
> (I think) as /mnt/windows. Win4lnx could be trying to establish a mount
> point within that partition. There's a possibility that it is unable to
> write to the boot sector, but that's an (un)intelligent guess. Mandrake
> shouldn't have a problem with FAT32 partitions, however, as I have never
> used win4lnx this could be an issue. Other things that might affect it are
> antivirus software (that prevents the boot sector from being modified) or
> some type of hard drive overlay software like OnTrack disk manager.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Red [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 2:41 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 Win4Lnx
>
>
> I'm not sure how much Johnny knows, but if he uses MS fdisk to create his
> partitions he's going to delete Windows, which I'm sure he wants to avoid.
> Does the Expert Mode allow you to resize fat16/32 partitions similar to
> Partition Magic?
>
> As for his original issue, this line:
> > "ext2 formating of /mnt/mnt/windows/lnx4win/linuxsys.img fail".
> Looks a little strange to me, particularly /mnt/mnt/. But I'm not overly
> familiar with win4lnx, so I could be wrong.
>
> Joseph Red
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 12:11 PM
> Subject: RE: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 Win4Lnx
>
>
> > Installing Linux separately will resolve this issue. You need to make
sure
> > that you have sufficient free space on the destination drive (I try to
> keep
> > around 1.5GB free) and make an unformatted partition there using FDISK.
If
> > you can, make an additional 125MB unformatted partition for the swap
file.
> >
> > Put the Linux boot disk in the floppy drive and Disc 1 in the CD-ROM then
> > restart your system. When you are asked how you would like to
> > install/partition your HDD, choose Expert Mode. Locate the drive and
> > partitions you created and choose to create an ext2 partition (you can
put
> > the mount point here). Expert Mode offers you the chance to resize
> > partitions (useful if you need to make room for a swap file).
> >
> > Mandrake should detect the presence of Windows and, when the install is
> > complete and you reboot, you will be presented with a boot menu that
> offers
> > Linux and Windows. In the case of NT/9x dual boot systems the boot menu
> will
> > list DOS as an option. This will get you to the standard boot menu
created
> > by the NT boot.ini file.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Johnny Kwan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 10:08 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 Win4Lnx
> >
> >
> > I have been trying to install Mandrake 7.2 to my PC which is running
> > WindowsMe. Win4Lnx allows the user to install Mandrake 7.2 without
> > re-partition the HD. Everything went smoothly until I hit the "file
> system
> > setup" where I have to choose the size for the root directory and swap
> file.
> >
> > After choosing the desire capacity for both options, I got an error
saying
> > that
> > "ext2 formating of /mnt/mnt/windows/lnx4win/linuxsys.img fail".
> >
> > If anyone have a similar experience before or know how to resolve this
> > problem, please help.
> >
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