Let's file this along with the other screwed-up things about Mandrake 7.0...
- Jeff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Maltzen [mailto:">maltzen@MM.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 11:23 AM
> To: Wandered Inn
> Cc: ALE
> Subject: Re: [ale] Re: new laptop and Mandrake
>
>
> I discovered :-( that I could overlap partitions and extend
> partitions beyond the physical end of the drive during
> Mandrake 7.0 install. I think there are some very big holes
> in their disk partitioning software.
>
> At 07:18 AM 4/19/2000 , Wandered Inn intimated that...
> >I've been doing some research on this thing, and I've found
> out that the
> >two partitions I was having problems with overlap (fdisk
> option 'v').
> >Fortunately, the last partition was empty, so I removed it
> and recreated
> >it.
> >
> >This is definitely a bug in the Mandrake 7.0 partition
> package. I used
> >it to create the partitions. All I did was define the size of the
> >partitions, not the start/end points.
> >
> >This certainly is not good.
>
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