installing madrake linux 7.1

[bmorency]

I am new to the linux scene.
I have two hard drives, one is 30 gigs partitioned into 4 (there are no partitions over 8 gigs, and they are fat32), the other is 3.2gigs. I have win98 on my c drive. I tried to install linux (mandrake 7.1) on my 3.2 gig drive and when I got to the partition part of the install I got an error saying "my partitions are too corrupt", but I can see all the drives from win98.

Does anybody know what can be causing this problem and how I can fix it? Thanks

bmorency

[linuxmommy]

Originally posted by bmorency:
I have two hard drives, one is 30 gigs partitioned into 4 ...I can see all the drives from win98.

Does anybody know what can be causing this problem and how I can fix it?

Just for a thought, I can't see my Linux drives from Win98, since they are EXT2 type. Then again, I have mine on a completely separate physical drive, not just another partition.

When I installed Mandrake 7.0 it would have let me manipulate the partitions again. I set them up originally under Windoze using Partition Magic. Have you tried something like that?

Hope it helps...

Michelle

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[bmorency]

Originally posted by linuxmommy:
Just for a thought, I can't see my Linux drives from Win98, since they are EXT2 type. Then again, I have mine on a completely separate physical drive, not just another partition.

When I installed Mandrake 7.0 it would have let me manipulate the partitions again. I set them up originally under Windoze using Partition Magic. Have you tried something like that?

Hope it helps...

Michelle



Yes, I tried that. I also forgot to say that for some reason the installer only sees an 8gig partition, it doesn't see the rest of them, it also says that the 8gig (hda) partition is empty. I formated my 3.2 gig hd with ext2. When I click auto allocate for some reason it wants to writes everything to hda. How can I get it to write to hdb and not to change the MBR of hda?

[mikeylikesitz]

i have two physical drives as well, and i found that when i used one for linux and one for windows it worked fine. I also bought a program called system commander, it allows for multiple partitions. the best way if possible is to make a back up of what you want to save and use the write disk software for the drives your using and write 0's to the drive. i did that for both drives and installed from scratch and haven't had a problem since.

[africanpekin]

hey all:

Auto allocate will definately write it hda. What you might want to do is to create your partitions your self and format your newly created partitions in mandrake. Create these partitions (You may change any to your liking:

swap 32 or 64 or 128mb -->
this equal the amount of memory in
your machine.

/ 100mb -->which is root

/usr 1000mb -->(programs installed
by mandrake for your system

/home 200mb -->where user info and
customizations go.

/usr/local 500mb --> other stuff
you might download and install.

/tmp 200mb


All of these partitions, except for swap will have either hda or hdb and a number. If your linux drive is different from your windows drive, take care NOT to format this drive or you would loose everything on it. The windows drive will be listed as /mnt/windows.

Go through the install if it lets you and then when it asks you where to install lilo, type in hdb and the number associated with the root (/) partition.

I hope this makes sense and I hope that it answers your questions.

Africanpekin


[This message has been edited by africanpekin (edited 23 October 2000).]

[bkurt]

Yeah, I have two 10 gig drives and I found it easiest to just use hard drake within the Mandrake install to partition my drive. Just click on the hdb tab in harddrake and partition and format away. All there is too it.