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Re: [SLE] Partition Magic and Suse 8.1
- From: Paul Cooke <paul.cooke100@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 23:32:57 +0000
- Message-id: <200302012332.57568.paul.cooke100@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Saturday 01 February 2003 22:04, Frits Wüthrich wrote:
> I used PM8 a week ago to make place on my machine with WindowsXP for
> SuSE8.1. I used the whizard in PM8 to ad another OS, and then choose Linux
> as the OS to ad. It created a partition in ext2 for the linux installation,
> and another partition for the swap file. When I installed SuSE8.1, it
> changed from ext2 to reiserfs.
>
> I use GRUB as the bootloader, so I can choose between WindowsXP and
> SuSE8.1. Works as a dream.
SuSE are now selling a bundled Partition Magic 8 with SuSE 8.1 Pro...
Costs more than the ordinary pro though. I was most upset though because I'd
just bought PM8 myself when I got my Laptop and SuSE 8.1. Had I known, I
could have saved some money... And that upsets me, wasting money... :(
Paul Cooke
ps, don't use the Bootmagic program that comes with PM8... It's useless
compared to using Grub and wastes a primary partition as well. You only get
four primary partitions per disk anyway... Makes life difficult if you want
to have separate "/" and "/home" partitions as well as have XP and an OEM
restore partition.
>
> Frits
>
> On Saturday 01 February 2003 21:39, Marino Fernandez wrote:
> > --- Tom Duerbusch <thdbusch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > When I boot XP, I can bring up Partition Magic up.
> > > However PM complains
> > > about an invalid boot sector and wants to fix it. I
> > > seem to recall
> > > reading that if PM is allowed to fix it, PM will not
> > > be able to boot
> > > Linux. There is something else you have to do first
> > > before PM is
> > > allowed to "fix" things.
> >
> > I had a similar problem with XP in the primary
> > partition and Mandrake 9.0 in one of the logical
> > partitions, using lilo as bootloader. PM 7 compains
> > about the boot sector because it does not support ext3
> > or any other journalized filesystems... if you let it
> > fix the boot sector lilo won't be able to boot into
> > linux anymore.
> >
> > However PM 8 does support ext3 fs, does not complain
> > about the boot sector and lets you resize your
> > partitons, including the linux ones (PM 7.0 wont let
> > you do that even if you fix the boot sector); now I
> > use PM 8 with XP in the primary, and SuSE 8.1 in one
> > of the logical partitions, with grub as bootloader. I
> > do not know if PM 8 supports other journalized fs
> > (other than ext3).
> >
> > So my advice is... get Partiton Magic 8, or use
> > another app... (ask one of the linux gurus about those
> > "another app"s).
> >
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Paul Cooke
Registered Linux user 273897 Machine registration number 156819
Linux Counter: Home Page = http://counter.li.org/
> I used PM8 a week ago to make place on my machine with WindowsXP for
> SuSE8.1. I used the whizard in PM8 to ad another OS, and then choose Linux
> as the OS to ad. It created a partition in ext2 for the linux installation,
> and another partition for the swap file. When I installed SuSE8.1, it
> changed from ext2 to reiserfs.
>
> I use GRUB as the bootloader, so I can choose between WindowsXP and
> SuSE8.1. Works as a dream.
SuSE are now selling a bundled Partition Magic 8 with SuSE 8.1 Pro...
Costs more than the ordinary pro though. I was most upset though because I'd
just bought PM8 myself when I got my Laptop and SuSE 8.1. Had I known, I
could have saved some money... And that upsets me, wasting money... :(
Paul Cooke
ps, don't use the Bootmagic program that comes with PM8... It's useless
compared to using Grub and wastes a primary partition as well. You only get
four primary partitions per disk anyway... Makes life difficult if you want
to have separate "/" and "/home" partitions as well as have XP and an OEM
restore partition.
>
> Frits
>
> On Saturday 01 February 2003 21:39, Marino Fernandez wrote:
> > --- Tom Duerbusch <thdbusch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > When I boot XP, I can bring up Partition Magic up.
> > > However PM complains
> > > about an invalid boot sector and wants to fix it. I
> > > seem to recall
> > > reading that if PM is allowed to fix it, PM will not
> > > be able to boot
> > > Linux. There is something else you have to do first
> > > before PM is
> > > allowed to "fix" things.
> >
> > I had a similar problem with XP in the primary
> > partition and Mandrake 9.0 in one of the logical
> > partitions, using lilo as bootloader. PM 7 compains
> > about the boot sector because it does not support ext3
> > or any other journalized filesystems... if you let it
> > fix the boot sector lilo won't be able to boot into
> > linux anymore.
> >
> > However PM 8 does support ext3 fs, does not complain
> > about the boot sector and lets you resize your
> > partitons, including the linux ones (PM 7.0 wont let
> > you do that even if you fix the boot sector); now I
> > use PM 8 with XP in the primary, and SuSE 8.1 in one
> > of the logical partitions, with grub as bootloader. I
> > do not know if PM 8 supports other journalized fs
> > (other than ext3).
> >
> > So my advice is... get Partiton Magic 8, or use
> > another app... (ask one of the linux gurus about those
> > "another app"s).
> >
> > __________________________________________________
> > Do you Yahoo!?
> > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.
> > http://mailplus.yahoo.com
--
Paul Cooke
Registered Linux user 273897 Machine registration number 156819
Linux Counter: Home Page = http://counter.li.org/
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