[linux-help] Re: Linux has errors on setup

[bruce <bbales@xxxxxxx>]

I have had pretty good luck using disk druid.  Other than that, 
I agreee with your assessment.  The easiest way to look at a 
system with a blank screen would be to slip in a dos flex and 
see what c:, d:, ... would show, so maybe that is what he did.
bruce

On Tuesday 24 September 2002 03:44 pm, you wrote:
> I still believe Jami's problem may be with the brain-dead
> disk druid or the auto-partitioning.
> They are both brain-dead and that is why I use fdisk.
>
> I had similar problems and his description of the fact that
> it seemed to create  7 partitions but he did not know what
> they were or why they were all there fits that theory.
> On a drive that size he really only needs 3 partitions --- /,
> swap, and /home.
>
> According to his original description, it would not boot
> after completing the install. It hung with a blank screen
> implying unable to load the kernel.
>
> Another thing Jami needs to be aware of is that $windows
> CANNOT access a Linux partition, although the reverse works
> flawlessly.  He said the drive had partitions created from c
> to i, implying he tried to read it in windows. The partitions
> can be seen (as long as there is only one primary partition)
> but cannot be accessed from windows.
>
>
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