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by **Suhas Achant** » Thu, 21 Jan 1999 04:00:00

I have a Dell Dimension XPSR 450 with 14.4 GB hard disk , I already have NT
and 98 installed. I am trying to install RedHat Linux 5.2 in an extended
partition. I chose fdisk and I created 3 logical parititions(hda4-6) in my
extended partition hda3. I chose the option write the partition tables and
then quit out of the fdisk which took me back to the install screen, when I
selected "done" to proceed to the next screen. The next screen "Setup
filesystems" does not see my logical partitions that I created. If go back
to fdisk and display the partitions info. it displays the correct
information. The setup filesystems screen only show the hda3 which is my
extended partition. I have sent couple of messages to Redhat, they asked to
enter the disk geometry and that did not work either, now I stopped getting
any response from Redhat support. Any help in this regard would be greatly
appreciated.

by **Brian Armstron** » Fri, 22 Jan 1999 04:00:00

NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 15:07:07 PDT

> I have a Dell Dimension XPSR 450 with 14.4 GB hard disk , I already have NT
> and 98 installed. I am trying to install RedHat Linux 5.2 in an extended
> partition. I chose fdisk and I created 3 logical parititions(hda4-6) in my
> extended partition hda3. I chose the option write the partition tables and
> then quit out of the fdisk which took me back to the install screen, when I
> selected "done" to proceed to the next screen. The next screen "Setup
> filesystems" does not see my logical partitions that I created. If go back
> to fdisk and display the partitions info. it displays the correct
> information. The setup filesystems screen only show the hda3 which is my
> extended partition. I have sent couple of messages to Redhat, they asked to
> enter the disk geometry and that did not work either, now I stopped getting
> any response from Redhat support. Any help in this regard would be greatly
> appreciated.

Suhas Achanta,

You will find multiple operating systems on one computer difficult for setup
procedures. Powerquest makes two software products, PartitionMagic and Boot
Magic, that work effortlessly and accurately. These two products are
definitely worth purchasing today! Load them under Windows 98. Run it first
under Windows 98. It will find the NT, Windows 98, and the linux partitions
you created. If the linux partitions do not exist. Use PartitionMagic 4.x to
create the primary linux partition while in Windows 98. Be sure to leave
64-128mg unused partition space for the linux setup to convert to a swap file
when you later run the linux setup software. Bootmagic will permit you to
choose which os you would like to start without any headaches. These two
products even permit Dos and Windows 3.1 partitions to be created and os
bootable!

hope this helps!

Brian

by **Paul Tis** » Sat, 23 Jan 1999 04:00:00

says...

Quote:> > to fdisk and display the partitions info. it displays the correct
> > information. The setup filesystems screen only show the hda3 which is my
> > extended partition. I have sent couple of messages to Redhat, they asked to

Did you use the dos-based fdisk? If so, I had a similar problem
although it was with partitioning with PartitionMagic. (Which is a great
program incidentally.)

Here's what you do, next time you sit down to install, and you get
to the part that asks about mounting filesystems and using diskdruid or
fdisk, use fdisk.

Make sure that your extended partition is of Type 5. It might be
set to another value. When I installed RH5.2 just a few nights ago,
Partiton Magic had set the extended partiton type to some Win95(LBA)
extended partition type. Swithcing it to type 5 did the trick. (Although
I wonder about potential problems given that the drive is larger than
8Gb.)
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