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Re: Win98 cannot see 2nd fat32 partition after mandrake 7.1 install(fwd)



----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Feiglin" <danny@swoppin.com>
To: "Shlomi Fish" <shlomif@techst02.technion.ac.il>
Cc: <linux-il@linux.org.il>; <shaula@techunix.technion.ac.il>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: Win98 cannot see 2nd fat32 partition after mandrake 7.1
install(fwd)


> That is really wierd. I don't have exactlty that combo: I have Win NT on C
> (FAT), D (NTFS) and then Linux on one system; on another system, I had NT
on
> C (FAT16) and D (NTFS), OS/2 on E (HPFS) and then Linux.
>
> 1. Try and get hold of the 2-diskette DOS version of Partition Magic (or
> something equally serious) and see what it reports about your partitions.
>
> 2. It's very important to install in the right order, from intolerant (Win
> XX) through
> don't mind (OS/2 for example) and then friendly - Linux. So:
>
> 3. Partition your drive C and D FAT16 (yeah, 16!!!), a small /boot
partition
> (one track ~ 15Mb, below the 1024 cylinder level i.e. below about 8.4Gb),
> then your root partition, and 512Mb swap at the end, out of the way
(double
> your memory). Again, the cleanest way to do this is to use a professional
> tool like Partition Magic. Using the Linux fdisk will work, but it may
simply
> repeat what you already saw. Remember, Win XX is intolerant. Anyway, if
you
> must use Linux fdisk, stick to FAT16 partitions for now.
>
> 4. Install Win 98. Do NOT let it convert your partitions to FAT32. It
should
> see C and D. Install explore2fs, a little Win utility which can see ext2
> partitions. (Get it off Tucows, or from
> http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/). Make sure that you can see your
two
> (empty) Linux partitions.
>
> 5. Install Linux. Remember, at the end to let lilo write the boot record
to
> your /boot logical partition and NOWHERE ELSE! Do not mark the partiton
> active,
> specially if you have a multi boot manager. You can use lilo as a boot
> manager, but someone else will have to advise you - I prefer PQ Boot
Manager
> which comes with Partition Magic. In the absence of a decent boot manager
or
> lilo expertise, create a Linux boot diskette for now. (Do it anyway.)
>
> 6. When you have both operating systems able to come up either from a boot
> manager, OR Win  98 from hard disk and Linux from diskette, then, hold
your
> breath and run the Win 98 utility to convert your FAT16 partitions to
FAT32.
> (I don't remember exactly where it is, but I did do it a while back on my
> kids' computer.) You can also use the diskette based Partition Magic to do
> it.
>
> 7. Again bring up Win 98 and check that you still see C and D. If you
don't,
> it's time to drag out a bottle of something or other and get stoned.
>
> 8. Run up Linux. Your Win partitions won't mount.Change the fat entries in
> fstab to fat32, and remount these partitions by hand. (If that fails,
> continue with the bottle from 7.)
>
> That's it in a nutshell.
>
>
> Daniel Feiglin
> -------------
<snip>
> > do you know somebody that knows how to make two win partitions and one
> > linux ?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Shaul.
</snip>

I can't put it in a better way as Daniel. I just would add that you should
also make sure you have at hand a good utility to recover your Master Boot
Record to a known condition. fdisk /mbr will save you ('r ass) more than
once. I mostly use Norton Utilities Rescue Disk, but there could be others
just as good I don't know of.

Once I installed RedHat 6.1 and allowed it to do a Gnome Workstation type
installation. Bad thing to do in a multi-boot system. It installed lilo,
whithout asking, in the MBR and not in the Linux boot partition. So fdisk
/mbr and/or NU Rescue and I was back on my feet.


Cheers,


Henry


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