[ale] rh 7.3 on amd, more info

[James P. Kinney III]

You won't be ale to use TRB on RH7.3 unless you compile a custom TRB
kernel that supports ext3. This is why partition magic is a weird
program to use. It reorders partitions as it sees fit to prevent other
partitioning apps from competing.

Win98 has a really #$^& way of "partioning" itself onto a drive. It will
mark the last sector of the last cylinder as unmovable. This blocks
resizing the partition. Partition magic gets around this by some horrid
process that involves reordering the partitions and moving the win98
chunk while reworking the MBR to hide all this.

The best way I have made W98 play well is to kill it (it was a nice
feeling, really :) fdisk the drive with DOS to make a partition for W98,
reinstall W98 (yuck!) and then do the Linux install. I did this
successfully once with a partition magic'ed drive but ran into problems
later with lilo (pre-grub days).

On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 13:47, Geoffrey wrote:
> Okay, here's something I didn't see before, that appears a bit weird to 
> me.  As I noted, I used partition magic to make room for linux on this 
> box that currently has win98.  I just booted with Tom's r/b disk and 
> listed the partitions.  it shows the following:
> 
> /dev/hda1           510      1232  (win98)
> /dev/hda2             1         6  (linux /boot)
> /dev/hda3             7       477  (linux /)
> /dev/hda4           478       509  (linux swap)
> 
> Point being, the filesystems are not numbered in the order they are on 
> the drive.  When I did an fdisk with tom's r/b, it did indicate this as 
> well.
> 
> Further, I could not mount either of the linux partitions as fdisk 
> complained that there were additional options needed that were not 
> supported by that kernel.
> 
> Anyone seen this before?  Suggestions as to how I might resolve this, 
> short of reinstalling two OS's... :(
> 
> -- 
> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
> 
> I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
> to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?
> 
> 
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