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| Thread ID: 27553 | 2002-11-25 09:06:00 | Mandrake 9 Partitioning | twelvevolts (2623) | Press F1 |
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| 101314 | 2002-11-25 09:06:00 | Obtained Mandrake 9 and installed it initially on the d drive of an old computer, leaving windows on the c drive. Found it pretty good so decided to put it on my new computer which only has one drive. Want to partition the drive to keep windows as well, but never had to partition a drive before. Work my way through the installation until I get to partitioning the drive. Now I can work out how to partition the drive, but having a job working out how to increase the size of the partition beyond about 2 gigs, which isn't enough to complete the installation. I note there are free partitions on the net such as Ranish, but I'm not sure if these would be easy to use if you are not familiar with them. Any suggestions on how to partition a disk to install Mandrake 9. |
twelvevolts (2623) | ||
| 101315 | 2002-11-25 19:47:00 | If your new hdd is empty, use a dos boot disk's fdisk program to set up a bootable partition for windoze (what ever size you like. I gave windoze me 5 gig out of 40 gig)and leave the rest of the drive with no partitions at all. Mandrake will then give you the option to use the empty (non partitioned)space. Worked a treat for me. Not sure how it will go if you use XP cause I don't have it. | rmcb (164) | ||
| 101316 | 2002-11-25 20:16:00 | I'm pretty sure its all Destructive - meaning you'd loose all your data.. Check the FAQ on partitioning, if you're wanting 1 doz partition, leave the second half empty. You'd prolly need Partition Magic for that.. Cheers Chilling_Silence |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 101317 | 2002-11-25 20:54:00 | Not all partitioning programmes are destructive. The best free programme I've found is Gnu Parted. This fits onto 2 floppies (you'll need to copy onto floppy using Rawwrite if in windows as they are image files). it is worthwhile printing off a copy of the instructions first (they don't run to too many pages) You boot the computer using the 1st floppy, it tells you when to insert the second... Follow instructions (it is a command line programme but don't let that scare you) Hit enter to get into session type 'parted' (without the ' ') <enter> type 'print' <enter> (This will show you your current partitions type 'help' <enter> this will give you all your options. you will be able to resize (you don't even need to defrag a windows partition first as it does this on the fly) to end the session type 'quit' <enter> then 'halt' <enter> |
Shroeder (492) | ||
| 101318 | 2002-11-25 22:00:00 | Oops Should have added: Important Disclaimer: Although this is non-destructive and I have never lost any data using this programme, I always (and so should anyone) backup important data before playing with partitions !!! |
Shroeder (492) | ||
| 101319 | 2002-11-26 07:34:00 | I find Partition Magic a gem; it was given away on a british magazine a few months ago. You could get away with an install less than 2 GB if you don't install everything. | Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 101320 | 2002-12-01 20:41:00 | Well - talk about the adventures of someone new to partitioning. Got mandrake installed on a partition, although still could not get the partition to be as large as I wanted. All was well though and everything was working perfectly. Then got hold of a copy of Partition Magic and thought this would answer all my prayers. Well I made the partition bigger and everything seemed to have worked perfectly until I rebooted. Then just about nothing worked and after using a rescue disk to get going again (and blowing mandrake away arrgghhh) I have finally got my computer back in order after a weekend removing errors of one sort or another. I'm not beaten yet but might need time to regroup and look for one of those mandrake nine Dummies books!!! | twelvevolts (2623) | ||
| 101321 | 2002-12-02 01:30:00 | The nice way to install any OS is onto an empty disk. ;-) It's often the easiest thing to reinstall Linux if anything goes wrong. The second (and subsequent :D) times are easier. You made the common mistake there: "... everything was working perfectly" and then you fixed it. :-( |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 101322 | 2002-12-02 02:25:00 | Mandrake won't move the data on the windows partition when it is resizing, so the smallest size you can make the win partiton will be to the last used cluster . You can see where it is by running defrag on the win partition and turning on "show details" . Running defrag should move everything to the start . If it can't move some clusters try running it in safe mode . |
bmason (508) | ||
| 101323 | 2002-12-02 04:24:00 | I'm not a Linux expert, but what I found when playing with Mandrake 9, and then removing it from a spare hard drive was that Microsoft Fdisk could not detect or remove Linux logical partitions that Mandrake had installed. I had to remove them with pqmagict.exe, the dos text based utility. No doubt the experts would use a Linux utility to do this. Just something to be aware of :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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