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.
True, but I reformatted them to Win95 after changing the partition type back to DOS using YaST. That's when I discovered that things were rather fouled up.
I'm a little confused here so help me out - you did change those three partitions on your primary to ext2 but then you changed them back to vfat? -- 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/