Hello Folks,
Please bear with me if the questions I am about to ask appear to be a
bit silly. I am completely new to Linux.
I have just installed Red Hat Linux 6.1 onto a 10G HD.
I repartitioned, using fips, the HD to give me 2G for Win 98 and 4G to
be used by Linux with the remaining 4G for a FAT32 partition to be
accessed by both WIN 98 and Linux. It all installed OK and Linux worked
fine but booting into WIN 98 gave a lot of delays starting any program
that had to look at the HD. WIN 98 was telling me I had a D and an E
drive and my CDRom was F.
I figured that WIN 98 was trying to work out what was on the other
drives and finally gave up. D, I believe, was the Linux drive and E was
the other partition. BTW, I formatted both new primary partitions as
FAT 32 before installing Linux. The 4G above the WIN 98 partition I
deleted and made new partitions for Linus during the install. The top 4G
I didn't do anything about at Linux install time. Under WIN 98 I could
actually change to both D & E but couldn't read anything. Couldn't
format E either although it went through the motions right up to
starting the actual format when it simply ended immediately.
So, I finally re-installed Linux but this time I deleted both the
recently created Linux install partitions and the upper 4G partition and
re-created the new Linux partitions and the remaining 4G as a DOS >=32
partition.
Linux still works fine. WIN 98 works just fine and doesn't hang around
trying to sort out the HD. It sees C, D & E (the CDRom). I can go to the
D drive under Win 98 but again cannot actually do anything such as DIR.
A message comes back saying that some thing else has the drive. I am not
game to try a format on D in case it may be the Linux partition. I don't
know how to look at it under Linux. There appears to be no fdisk on my
Linux system or the boot disk created during install so I cannot work
out what Linux thinks are there. During bootup the following message is
in dmesg, Partition check. hda: hda1 hda2 <hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8>. The 4
partitions I created during the linux install appear to be there.
My question therefore is, how can I check out those 4 partitions. How
can I format hda8 to be a FAT32 partition (providing, of course, that it
is the 4G partition I created at install time as a dos >=32 (the other 3
partitions are root, boot and swap.) Can I format it under WIN 98? Is
the D drive WIN 98 sees the dos >=32 partition or one of the other Linux
partitions?
Questions, questions, questions.
The other question I have at the moment is how to FTP files, in
particular docs. From one of the HOWTOS I got the following info:
Linux Installation and Getting Started at
http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/LDP/gs/gs.html.
I can go to that site and read the file in my Netscape browser. When I
went to a terminal and invoked ncftp I was able to OPEN the site but a
GET using the full URL told me there was no such file. I then CDed to
the gs dir and did a GET on gs.html and received the same message, no
such file.
There are other docs I would like to get, eg. Linux USers Guide and
Linus FAQs and CONFIG.HOWTO at the same site.
What am I doing wrong?
I know this is all pretty simple stuff to experienced users but if
someone can help me with this simple stuff I can start, hopefully,
looking after myself.
Ta,
Graeme.
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