Summary: Yea. I would start over.... You can only have 3 primary partitions. The 4th has to be an extended partition. Then you can have as many logical volumes...
Summary: Please help...this is driving me nuts ;o) I have partitioned my 40Gb HDD (using DOS fdisk) as follows; 1: ~10Gb FAT32 with WinME 2/3: ~20Gb FAT32 spli...
Summary: I am trying to use sed to parse a text file. It does really well, but gives me one line of text too many. As an example: sed -n "/WX: /,/[0-2][0-9][0-...
Summary: Good. fdisk /mbr (in MS-DOS), overwrites the MBR according to the existing partition tables. There are some setups that have complications, such as t...
Summary: Hi folks, Have a newly partitioned HD with following config; root@ttyp0[knoppix]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes 255 heads, 63 sec...
Summary: If your BIOS is up to date, are not going over 4 TB don't worry. Just be sure to create a bootdisk just in case you have to change from linear mode to...
Summary: i have successfully done this - too many times. If the partition you are most interested in is the 1st on its drive, your success probability is high....
Summary: Hello, I am having problem with a FAT32 Partition in my dual-boot system. The problem is that I can both read and write from it in both Linux and Win ...
Summary: I am trying to give ordinary users the ability to mount /dev/sda into /mnt/usb. /dev/sda is a usb thumbdisk, 128Mb. I edited the fstab file to allow t...
Summary: hi all, When trying to mount my FAT32 XP partition through fstab using /dev/hda2 /mnt/music vfat auto 1 1 , I get the following error message. ...
Summary: Well, I really did it this time. I attempted to install Redhat 7.3 on my 20Gb hard drive that already contained one primary fat32 partition, and one ...
Summary: Hi, I've been trying to mount a partition from a FreeBSD 5.3 slice but I cannot (better said I don't know how to) specify that certain partition. In F...
Summary: Looks right. However, I would personally create the extended partitions in hda2 if that's possible, and the primary linux partitions on hda3 and hda4....
Summary: Hello: my system has 2 harddisks: the first with 5GB has win98 and the second 80GB. In the last one i have a partition with 35Gb and with Redhat 7.0 a...
Summary: hi, I am having a problem accessing an ext2 partition in linux. when I try to mount the partition manually i get the following error: /dev/hdc2: at...
Summary: WHAT? WHAT? first of all, linux can install on anywhere from 10MB to (endless) For a typical install, 2 gb minimum is recommended. Having 2 par...
Summary: A lot of people have wanted this info so here it is. IF I have too many typo's you can search for dual boot linux and nt. That is how I learnd. I had ...
Summary: Hi everyone. I used to use Windows (ME) on my system, but, I got pretty fed up with it, and its numerous faults. As an alternative, I went ...
Summary: try a different broswer such as FIREBIRD :) Or maybe your distro is just weighed down with too many apps. Also do you have a good swap partition? ...
Summary: fdisk /mbr should get rid of grub. On a big hard drive, grub/lilo probably won't work. If you are able to boot into win2000 by just turning the comput...
Summary: I'm having a problem with mounting a Windows partition from Debian. When I try `mount /deb/hdb1 /win` , I get the following error message: "mount: wro...
Summary: Newone, I am pretty sure you need to down size your C: a little to get your D: to start below cylinder 1024 . I bought Partition Magic through ebay. ...
Summary: Sounds no good. If I were you, I would try 1. Reset BIOS, then go back it and only set a couple of basic option. Don't try to set too many options as ...
Summary: I am trying to get linux to automatically mount my NTFS partition. What do I need to add to /etc/fstab to make it work? I have tried the following an...
Summary: Format my hard drive!? I'd lose everything, hehe. I got too many MP3s and other downloaded stuff on my Windows partition. Can't be bothered to reinsta...
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