On Sun, 28 May 2000, you wrote:
SuSE v6.3 on a pentium with a 20 GB HD (along with two others) installed as the primary slave.
I want to change the type of the last three partitions on the 20 GB HD (it's partitioned into 10 DOS partitions) from DOS to Linux (I have RH v6.1 on one of the other HDs on the platform) in order to install v6.3. I had started the process yesterday and was about half way through the install
So I take it the partitions were already converted from DOS to ext2 and the power failure took place as you were installing Linux?
when there was a power failure and the machine rebooted into W95. At that point I discovered that W95 wasn't reading the changed partition table. I
If the partitions were reformatted to ext2 then windows won't be able to read them - as far as windows is concerned they don't exist, which is normal. -- Yatsen Ng yatsenng@casema.net It said "Needs Windows 98 or better." So I installed Linux... -- 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/