-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 08 April 2003 12:21 pm, pete atkinson wrote:
On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 18:11, Pieter Hulshoff wrote:
In esssence, Yast is insisting on shrinking his D: (XP) which, I suppose he is understandably reluctant to do so, and is not letting him install on the 'C:' drive.
I may be able to understand Yast suggesting this (not really actually, but hey:), but there's the option of creating partitions and mount positions in expert mode, right? How does Yast prevent this?
Regards,
Pieter Hulshoff
Thats the problem, he is not 'an expert'.. I see what you are saying tho'
I'll second that comment and point out that having XP on D: is EXTREMELY odd. (even worse is "nothing at all on C:") This raises red flags in that what is being reported may not be accurate. I would advise a day where you go to your bosses home and physically look at/poke around the computer yourself [you ARE knowledgeable about such pokings, right?] Generally, IDE based systems want to boot from A: or C:; by definition, "A:" is the first floppy drive, and C: is the "first" IDE [or SCSI] drive. Later BIOS's have the option to boot from what is CALLED D:, E:, or F:; which corresponds to the primary drive on the secondary controller followed by the secondary drives on the primary & secondary controllers [PLEASE check that -- it could also be that the order is C1/D1; C1/D2; C2/D1; C2/D2 where C=controller and D=drive] It starts to get fun when you have tertiary controllers or SCSI controllers [with 7 or 15 drives...] - -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://osnut.homelinux.net/TomEmerson.asc iD8DBQE+kxeRV/YHUqq2SwsRAl8nAJ9+Q0R19R7xCfxqq1g1CuAwrIKf1gCdHJKW UkQhBwTROlsuGgaFKewYMzU= =zbKQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----