Thanks Frank I have statrted with windows 200 on all of my hard drive,
then used partition magic to resize W2k to 30 MEG and Left 29 MB
unassigned for future linux install. I have then installed Mandrake 9.2
used custom (I think) and selected my blank area of my hard drive and
then used the auto setting. It creates a boot section, a swap section, and
another ext2 section. Install proceeds successfully. However when I
try to use Partition Magic 7.0 again to check on partitions or to free
up more space, I get the error messages ..do I want PM to fix? Here's
where my perplextion lies. Do I tell PM to fix or not? do I take the hint
that maybe I should look for another distro that doesn't modify my partions.
I have also tried Mandrake 10.0 beta 2 and it makes the hard drive useless.
My w2k will work but PM now says that my whole Hard Drive is "BAD".
Lesson learned: I'm to much a nOOb to play with betas. After all this I
found out
that Mandrake is coming out of bankruptcy or the french word for it. had I
known
I may have put more time into learning another distro.
Knoppix looks like a good possibility if I can figure out how to install it
on the hard drive.
from there I can get to Debian or Gentoo.But first I have to get Knoppix on.
---- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Roberts - SOTL" <sotl155360@earthlink.net>
To: <slug@nks.net>; "Red Wolfman" <redrhood@hotpop.com>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] nOOb getting started questions
> On Friday 13 February 2004 12:48 pm, Red Wolfman wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I am new to Linux as well as email let alone "mailing list". Please
excuse
> > any errors in form etc..
> >
> > I have attempted to install several different distros with different
levels
> > of success. Mandrake 9.2 appears to install with most things working
but
> > it messes up my partitions. When I use Partition magic 7 it says i have
> > errors , does it want me to allow it to fix?
> >
> > Are there any distros that do not modify you ext2 partition?
> >
> > Thankyou for any and all help.
> >
> When I tried Partition Magic with Mandrake 9.0 it did not work well.
>
> I solved that issue by using expert mode when installing Mandrake.
>
> Maybe that is what you should try.
>
> Frank
>
>
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