On Thursday 08 November 2001 02:27, you wrote:
Hello all
I am having trouble partitioning my HD. Originally it was a dual boot win98/Linux. I 'upgraded' to win2k, became thoroughly disgusted with win2k's lack of cooperation, reformatted the HD and reinstalled win98. Now I want to put Linux back on the HD, but.....
when I run fips it tells me that there are 2 FAT's (????) and that the last cylinder is full. I have defragged without the virtual mem option but that doesn't seem to do it.
Anyone with any ideas as to what comes next? I am at a loss.
Rod
-- 100% Linux Only genuine Linux tools were used in the generation and posting of this email.
Hi there I spent the whole of this week to make mine system triple boot with w9x for kids games,w2k for some work compability and Linux for some serious fun! Reinstaled all systems several times and repartitioned hds several times in the process.Good news you CAN use the yast to partition your hardrive any way you like ,I`ve done it and for the record you can instal Linux first that is if you leave space for win at the start of the drive,instal lilo on the floppy first , than after win is installed put lilo in the MBR if you wish. Yast can partition for FAT32 easily so you could boot installation disk(cdrom) than choose partitioning for the expert ,it`s actually idiot proof.All GUI so quite easy and selfexplanatory.Alternatively you can boot w2k instalation disk and use it`s partition manager to do same thing that is to create and format FAT16 or FAT32 partitions just leave some space unpartitioned for Linux.Yast will take care of the rest. Hope it will help! Alan -- Linux suse-linux 2.4.4-4GB #1 Fri May 18 14:11:12 GMT 2001 i586 unknown