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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 11 August 2002 11:53 am, Kai Hendry wrote:
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 09:33:17PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:Easy I thought. Scandisk and defrag the M$ FAT32, load Mandrake 8.1 and diskdrake, shave 3Gb off the FAT and reboot.I would not have bothered with the scandisk or defrag. :)
With M$ habit of spreading bits of files like confetti, I've found defrag useful in getting a useful figure for the extent of the fs. As it was, a few read only files confused the issue and meant I was only offered the 3Gb I needed instead of the 6Gb that was actually there.
If M$ is on hda1 and Mandrake on hda3 (hda4 as swap), what happens if I slap a 3Gb partition IN THE MIDDLE! Oops.print your partition with a program with "parted".I get a kernel panic, that's what happens. Failed at 03:03I doubt a fault of the kernel. ;)
Of course not, it was my fault, as I described later, for not completing the process before the reboot.
If I hadn't found an old boot floppy, would there have been any way of mounting what was hda3 across the network? It turned out to be denoted asAcross the network? You can't mount a drive through the network without a running machine listening for connections etc. etc. etc. Maybe a network of IDE cables.
Turns out that a dual-boot machine is handy here. If I can get the rescue CD to mount hda3 AND hda1, I can tarball data across to the local partition and from there across the network. The bare rescue system doesn't enable any of the networking protocols, so there wasn't a way of any machine on the network communicating with the sick rescue system directly.
Another visit to the boot floppy to remove the line for /dev/hda3, start the system, back into diskdrake to format the new 3Gb partition, and it can be mounted properly!You can format with parted I think too. Or mkfs.ext3 or something like that.
I'm trying to avoid that - I need some of the data on that sick hda3!
EXISTING swap partition (now hda7) or do I have to do more fiddling with diskdrake and create another swap partition? After all, only one Linux distro will be running at a time.Try it, I should think it would work fine. -Kai
Will do. Slackware, here I come! - -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx neil@xxxxxxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9Vmc4iAEJSii8s+MRApu8AJ49/zUMECpj62CE2ssdNK3nkAtzNACfeAWe ifkgJ3PKqChBltsSe1WGaV0= =mCaC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.