On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Glenn Pedersen wrote:
Hi everyone, I just got a Quantum 10 Gig drive and because my bios only sees it as eight meg I need to use a drive manager program to correct it.
I need to do this cause i dual boot windows to play games when I get frustrated with Linux :)
I seriously doubt that you need to use a drive manager. And someone else already mentioned that you appear to have overlapping partitions, which means you'll probably have to trash and reinstall everything to clean up. (Back up anything you can manage to back up, that you need to keep, first.) First, I hope that the BIOS sees 8 gig, not 8 meg. Next go into YAST (not YAST2) and get to the disk partitioning process. Delete all existing partitions. Allocate one partition of about 5-10 megabytes right at the front of the disk. Yes, in this case, I meant megabytes, you really do need a tiny partition here.. Do not put the rest of the disk in ANY partition. Once that is allocated and you've exited from the partitioning process, turn off the computer. When you turn it back on, install Windows. Don't worry about the portion of the drive that isn't recognised. Just ignore it and install Windows. Once that is complete, then go back to installing Linux using YAST. That tiny partition you allocated must be bound into the file system as /boot. What you do with the rest of it is up to you. This way you should be able to use the entire disk with no problem and no special boot-manager program. See, Linux, once it's booted, doesn't care about what the BIOS sees of the disk. It ignores the BIOS. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/