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I'm having trouble with the fdisk portion of my INFOMAGIC RedHat 4.0
installation.  I'm running win95 on a 4Gig drive split up as a
primary C: (2Gig) and a extended/logical D: (2Gig).

After I fips'd and set aside some disk space for the LINUX install, I
used DOS fdisk.exe (from DOS mode) to delete the new partition under DOS.
I rebooted the machine in DOS mode and started the RedHat install by going
to my CDROM E:/dosutils and ran autoboot.  It finds the CDROM OK and everything
works great until I get to the LINUX fdisk section where it reports the
following partitions from the "p" command:

/tmp/hda1        1.1G     DOS 16-bit >=32M
/tmp/hda2        2Gig     Extended
/tmp/hda3        2Gig     DOS 16-bit >=32M

The 1.1G is the remainder of my C: that's still win95.  I used approx .9 for
the LINUX install.  The "extended" 2Gig is the D: drive and I don't know why
it's reporting the other 2Gig partition (the combined 1.1G and new FIPS
partition?)

The problem is the install guide for INFOMAGIC LINUX said the "p" command here
should show just the /dev/hda device (just the new partition I made with FIPS)
but instead it shows all of the DOS partitions and not the new partition I
set aside for LINUX.

With all of the DOS partitions showing up at this point, I can't re-partition
the new partition (which isn't even showing up) into SWAP and LINUX NATIVE.

The question is, why are my DOS partitions showing up when I'm running
LINUX fdisk during installation?  I can't see the *new* partition.

Also, I originally tried slicing off a piece of my D: drive (using FIPS)
to use for LINUX (my preferred choice), but FIPS gave an error
"unable to partition extended drives at this point", so I had to do this
install on my primary C drive.  Does anyone know a workaround for this?
Is there anyway to put this on my D: drive instead?

Thanks for any info you can send.

Dave McMahon

Hi!

I'm trying to set up my HD with Linux and use OS/2's Boot Manager.
I have done this a few times with just 2 OS's, but I want to have
the option of booting Dos, OS/2 or Linux.

Dos & OS/2 are booting fine... so I'm trying to load Linux, but I
forgot about my swap partition! Linux instructs me to use OS/2's
fdisk to set up the partition table... but OS/2's fdisk seems to
"max out" at 4 partitions! One for the boot manager, one for DOS,
one for OS/2 and one for LINUX NATIVE, but then informs me that
the rest of the disk is "not usable". SO... I tried Linux's fdisk,
which told me that I need to set up an extended partition?

What gives?

Thanks,

Dan

TEST

TESTING

Hi!

 I'm trying to set up my HD with Linux and use OS/2's Boot Manager.
 I have done this a few times with just 2 OS's, but I want to have
 the option of booting Dos, OS/2 or Linux.

 Dos & OS/2 are booting fine... so I'm trying to load Linux, but I
 forgot about my swap partition! Linux instructs me to use OS/2's
 fdisk to set up the partition table... but OS/2's fdisk seems to
 "max out" at 4 partitions! One for the boot manager, one for DOS,
 one for OS/2 and one for LINUX NATIVE, but then informs me that
 the rest of the disk is "not usable". SO... I tried Linux's fdisk,
 which told me that I need to set up an extended partition?

What gives?

Thanks,
Dan

HTH
DamirN

 It looks like you are creating all your partitions as primary.

 PC architecture only allows 4 primary partitions.  This is non-negotiable
 and means that you will have to re-partition your drive to use the rest
 of it.  Under most circumstances you only need one primary anyway,
 so making the rest of them extended logicals is a better idea anyway.
 Both linux and OS/2 will live on extended partitions without any problem,
 and that way they will be able to access the stuff on the other partitons
 as well.

 Let me know if you need more detailed info,

 rick

1. Bootmanager (OK I lied: this will be a primary one, too)
2. DOS (primary)
3. OS/2 (extended)
3. Linux (extended)
3. Linux swap (extended)

Keeping them almost all extended will mean that the drive letters won't
get reordered if you ever add a second HD.

__________________________________
David Demmer
Ontario Laser & Lightwave Research Centre

http://www.ollrc.on.ca

Quote:>Hi!

>I'm trying to set up my HD with Linux and use OS/2's Boot Manager.
>I have done this a few times with just 2 OS's, but I want to have
>the option of booting Dos, OS/2 or Linux.

>Dos & OS/2 are booting fine... so I'm trying to load Linux, but I
>forgot about my swap partition! Linux instructs me to use OS/2's
>fdisk to set up the partition table... but OS/2's fdisk seems to
>"max out" at 4 partitions! One for the boot manager, one for DOS,
>one for OS/2 and one for LINUX NATIVE, but then informs me that
>the rest of the disk is "not usable". SO... I tried Linux's fdisk,
>which told me that I need to set up an extended partition?

>What gives?

:>

:>
:>>> Dos & OS/2 are booting fine... so I'm trying to load Linux, but I
:>>> forgot about my swap partition! Linux instructs me to use OS/2's
:>>> fdisk to set up the partition table... but OS/2's fdisk seems to
:>>> "max out" at 4 partitions! One for the boot manager, one for DOS,
:>[...]
:>>Hi, Dan
:>>if you are trying to set up all those partitions as PRIMARY under OS/2,
:>>it will max out at 4 possible partitions. Did you try to mark those
:>>extra partitions as --the exact name escapes me right now -- extended or
:>>logical partitions? That's how I set mine up and it works like a charm.
:>>
:>This fellow is correct. In fact, you are really much better off if there is
:>only ONE primary partition, since (at least under DOS & OS/2) only one
:>primary is "visible" at a time. The only thing that needs to be on a primary
:>is DOS, the poor brain-dead old thing, and all the rest should be

winblows 95 is a poor old brain dead thing as well

:>extended/logical partitions. Your setup should look like:
:>
:>1. Bootmanager (OK I lied: this will be a primary one, too)
:>2. DOS (primary)
:>3. OS/2 (extended)
:>3. Linux (extended)
:>3. Linux swap (extended)
:>
:>Keeping them almost all extended will mean that the drive letters won't
:>get reordered if you ever add a second HD.
:>
:>
:>__________________________________
:>David Demmer
:>Ontario Laser & Lightwave Research Centre

:>
:>http://www.ollrc.on.ca
:>

Derek

//    Derek Morton and Lenise Whyte in Eltham,  Australia      //

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