Mandrake Linux 9.0

[I_DONT_SHARE_PORN]

Originally posted by pch@10 February 2003 - 00:21
I_DONT_SHARE_PORN, if you are such an expert then why aren't you giving me ultimate tips?

I gave you the only tip you need , i said create a partition for linux by using "Partition Magic" it runs under all versions of windoze, including windoze Me <Evil , after you create the partition , boot up with the linux disk and choose to install linux on a ext2 partition that you have created with you guessed it > "Partition Magic", remember to install "Boot Magic" after you install "Partition Magic"&#33;&#33; so you can choose wihich OS to boot... How hard is that??

[I_DONT_SHARE_PORN]

And another thing , you are talking about not being able to access your windows partition, THIS IS BECAUSE IT IS NOT SET ACTIVE , if you take my expert advice , you can run partition magic on either on a Emergency Boot Disk in dos mode , or In the windows environment, to change partitions to ACTIVE or HIDDEN&#33;, or you can also type FDISK at the dos command line , this will let you set ACTIVE partitions, if you cant access windoze&#33;&#33;

[TheLabel]

I did this same thing, but I first partitioned my disk through Windows using Partition Magic and then installed Linux on the partition. When it booted, a screen came up where I could select DOS (Windows) or Linux (this was with Red Hat, if it makes a difference).

[I_DONT_SHARE_PORN]

Originally posted by TheLabel@10 February 2003 - 03:15
I did this same thing, but I first partitioned my disk through Windows using Partition Magic and then installed Linux on the partition. When it booted, a screen came up where I could select DOS (Windows) or Linux (this was with Red Hat, if it makes a difference).

That&#39;s what i&#39;ve been trying to explain to theese yahoo&#39;s&#33;&#33;

[4play]

Originally posted by I_DONT_SHARE_PORN+--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (I_DONT_SHARE_PORN)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>That&#39;s what i&#39;ve been trying to explain to theese yahoo&#39;s&#33;&#33; [/b]

im more of google man myself

anyway what the label is talking about is the lilo bootloader that red hat installed for him. he said nothing about any boot magic program. there are plenty of ways to dual boot thats why people get confused.

pch has installed linux and killed his master boot record with lilo im presuming so sticking another bootload into the fray will probably not help.

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A Windows bootable floppy? How do I install lilo to /dev/hda1? I cannot access my Windows partition. [/quote]

use your win me installation cd and get to a console through the recovery option. I hope win me has it.

type help and look for a command called mbrfix or something along those lines. then let it fix your mbr and windows will bott again.

[onemessedupjedi]

Just figured I should mention that it is recomended by partition magic that you don&#39;t make a swap file over 500 megs even if you have more than that in ram.....Although I doubt it really matters.

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Originally posted by 4play@10 February 2003 - 17:00
pch has installed linux and killed his master boot record with lilo im presuming so sticking another bootload into the fray will probably not help.

Like i stated above, the ME partition is not destroyed, it is simply not set ACTIVE&#33;&#33;
Once again run FDISK if you can , if you cant do that , I SMELL A FORMAT..,
and yea, a Linux swap should not be over 500 MB.

[4play]

my linux swap partition is set at 800 mb and i have no problems with it. still i may be wasting space.

I have never heard of a boot record not being set active. how could the master boot record not be the place that the bios first looks for to boot your system

a format is normally the last resort. and i do not think it is needed here if you can just boot into linux why not play around with the bootloader you are using which would be lilo or grb and add windows in there.

im sure mandrake has a few little tools to help you edit lilo and help install it.

if not go to the konsole and type lilo /help and see what it gives you throw it a few arguements and see what it does. it is good learning the hard way sometimes.

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Originally posted by 4play@11 February 2003 - 00:03
I have never heard of a boot record not being set active. how could the master boot record not be the place that the bios first looks for to boot your system

lilo will set the M&#036; partition to HIDDEN, only one OS is visable to the computer
at a time , thus it sets partitions ACTIVE or HIDDEN.

[PcH]

OK. I tried to set the 14Gb FAT32 WinME partition active through FDISK, but it failed. So I created a 14Gb FAT32 primary DOS partition through FDISK. I deleted my Linux EX3 partition through FDISK. I formatted it and reinstalled Windows ME. I downloaded PM8 and have a question. What partition extension should Mandrake Linux be? EXT2 or EXT3? Should I use PM8&#39;s &#39;Install an OS&#39; option, or should I retry manually? Thank you all for your posts. ^_^