For a start it would have to have had 3 partitions, primary, extended and
on the extended, at least one logical.
The install would have changed the partition flags from DOS to Linux
native and would also have installed the ext2 file system on whatever
partition it was installed on. This is as a minimum and does not take
account of the possible installtion of a Linux swap partition.
Was there free space on the disk before you started?
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On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Mehmet Yousouf wrote:
> Hi,
> I have just been abused by a (former?) friend for getting him to try
> linux.
> I suggested he install linux on his system (win 95) which was split into
> 2 partitions, primary dos and extended dos. After he installed linux
> (Mandrake 7.1), windows can't access his second (data) partition
> -attempt to access beyond superblock kernel panic.
> Has anyone done this sort of install? Is there a reason why it
> shouldn't work?
>
> Regards, Mehmet
>
> P.S. fdisk /mbr fixed windows.
>
>
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