Hi,
There have been a couple of reported problems
here about Mandrake and disk partitions.
If FAT partitions were involved, see
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fupdates.php3
~anon
(or ~Randy)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Maltzen [mailto:">maltzen@MM.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 8:23 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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