by Armin Woit » Fri, 26 Feb 1999 04:00:00
I want to install Linux as second OS on my Win98 machine *without loss
of data*. Since there is only one Partition of 6.4GB on my EIDE
HardDrive I tried to split it with the program fips.
This does not work. fips complains that this is not a DOS partition and
exits. I suspect that the size of the disk is the reason.
Is there a workaround, or what other program could I use ?
Thanks a lot
Armin
by sh » Fri, 26 Feb 1999 04:00:00
by Robert A. McNee » Sat, 27 Feb 1999 04:00:00
> I want to install Linux as second OS on my Win98 machine *without loss
> of data*. Since there is only one Partition of 6.4GB on my EIDE
> HardDrive I tried to split it with the program fips.
> This does not work. fips complains that this is not a DOS partition and
> exits. I suspect that the size of the disk is the reason.
> Is there a workaround, or what other program could I use ?
> Thanks a lot
> Armin
--
Robert A. McNees
Theory Group, Dept. of Physics
University of Texas, Austin
by Armin Woit » Tue, 02 Mar 1999 04:00:00
Armin :-)
> Are you sure you're using the latest version of FIPS? Make sure you
> have v2.0. I used it to partition a 13.6 GB drive with no problems. For
> anything over 8 GB, though, you need to work in expert mode.
> --
> Robert A. McNees
> Theory Group, Dept. of Physics
> University of Texas, Austin
1. how do i mount an extended dos partition or a dos logical partition ?
i need to access/share data with an NT machine (not on a network)
i have 10G removable hard drives
i am trying to put a file system on it to allow access by both linux and
NT
linux won't mount an ntfs file system
the NT person put 4 primary (?) dos partitions on the disk
and if i run fdisk in linux it sees 4 FAT16 partitions
but it will only let me mount the first one
how do i mount the other 3 ?
is there some special way the disk needs to be formated by NT ?
thanks for any help,
dan
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