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

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

bruce wrote:

>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
>

The biggest problem I have had with disk druid is it 'routinely' makes 
the swap partition the last on the drive, and it never seems to make the 
/ partition the first on the drive. EVEN THOUGH I always define the / 
partition first.

>
>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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