I'm finding it difficult to believe nobody has an opinion on this
-- heck, nobody's even flamed me for a clueless newbie.... :)
> I recently installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 on a machine that already
> had a single Windows Me partition on a 60G IBM hard drive.
>
> Although I'd already purchased a copy of PartitionMagic (v. 6.0)
> I wanted to put Mandrake through its paces, so I used DiskDrake
> to reduce the size of the FAT32 partition and to create my new
> Gnu/Linux partitions (1 swap, 3 ext2).
>
> After installing PartitionMagic I used it to split up my Windows
> partition (going from a single FAT32 partition to four FAT32 parti-
> tions). This worked fine.
>
> PartitionMagic doesn't see the Gnu/Linux partitions, however. It
> displays them as one big contiguous "Type 85" partition. Naturally
> I haven't tried doing anything with this via PM.
>
> Other than this, everything's working fine. Both the Me and Gnu/
> Linux sides are booting (using Grub) and running properly -- but I
> *would* like to be able to manage my Gnu/Linux partitions with PM.
>
> I should point out that all of the Gnu/Linux stuff is at the end
> of the partition map, well beyond the 1024-cylinder frontier.
>
> Anyone know what might be going on? Thanks....
>
> Mark Shaw
>
