partitioning

[Master of Reality]

is there a quick and easy Graphic partitioning tool that would have came with my red hat 7.2?

[Master of Reality]

how can i make a fat (vfat) partition using linux??

[iancom]

If you're after a graphical partitioning tool, have a look at Webmin (http://www.webmin.com) - it does pretty much everything else as well. (RPMs available for almost the easiest install I've ever seen on Linux...)

However, I do recommend you at least get to know the basics of fdisk - you'll appreciate why the first time you have to use your rescue disk!

[Master of Reality]

of all the things i like webmin for... partitioning isnt one of them. It doesnt show hdb1, and for some reason it wont let me add a partition to the end of hda1 (i have 1.2 GB unpartitioned (free).

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by X11:
If you have free space, boot off your win CD
and tell it to load with CDROM support.
Then:
C:\>fdisk
(Fdisk will start)
Create a primary partition in the space and make it active, then exit, wait for you cache to flush...
Reboot.
Boot of CD again.
Just tell it not too WIPE OTHER OS's when it asks.
And you should be able to install it.
But 1.2gig is unnessesary for a DVD player partition. You should leave 200mb for DR-DOS and load on Arachne
Ar-rac-ne is how you say it, but there is also Caldera Webspyder as well.

fdisk says that my primary hard drive is 100% taken up by a non-msdos partition, it says that for my secondary harddrive too, which has 19 GB free.

Doesnt DR-DOS cost money?

[voidmain]

Use Linux "fdisk", it recognizes like 100 partition types. M$ FDISK only recognizes like 3.

[Master of Reality]

what do i put in grub.conf to add an entry to debian which i just intstall on hdb3.
Could i just copy the entry for red hat and change the partition (and name)?

[voidmain]

I would assume the debian installation uses a different kernel version. If you were to copy the RedHat entry and change the "root" partition, you would also have to put a copy of the Debian kernel in your "/boot" partition where grub resides on your RedHat side. You would also have to have a copy of the initrd image if your Debian uses one.

However, probably the easiest thing would have been to install Debian and had it install LILO to the partition boot sector on whichever partition your Debian is installed on.  Then you would just need an entry similiar to a Windows Boot entry in GRUB's menu.lst file. All of this is speculation as I have not tried it but I think it should work. I personally switched back to LILO with the SuSe animated menus on my RedHat 7.2 boxes although GRUB seemed to work well.

[ April 29, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
However, probably the easiest thing would have been to install Debian and had it install LILO to the partition boot sector on whichever partition your Debian is installed on.  Then you would just need an entry similiar to a Windows Boot entry in GRUB's menu.lst file. All of this is speculation as I have not tried it but I think it should work. I personally switched back to LILO with the SuSe animated menus on my RedHat 7.2 boxes although GRUB seemed to work well.

[ April 29, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

hey, wait.. I actually did that. I installed LILO to the partition boot sector of my Debian partition (HDB2). So what do i add for it? I dont know what a windows entry looks like, so that wont help me.

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by Master of Reality:

hey, wait.. I actually did that. I installed LILO to the partition boot sector of my Debian partition (HDB2). So what do i add for it? I dont know what a windows entry looks like, so that wont help me.

I would try something like:

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I'm not sure about the chainloader option, they only show it for DOS/Win/OS2 but all the other examples in /usr/share/doc/grub-0.90/menu.lst (which you should also have) give the path to the kernel and initrd.  I'm thinking if you treat it like a DOS boot partition it will kick off LILO and LILO will have the kernel/initrd parameters needed to boot Debian.  Again, I'm speculating. It shouldn't hurt anything to try it as long as you don't mess up your RedHat entry..

[sporkme]

quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
Use Linux "fdisk", it recognizes like 100 partition types. M$ FDISK only recognizes like 3.

ms fdisk can see linux partitions but cannot handle many of them, software scsi for instance, and extended drives.  is sees them as a dos extended drive with no logical drives and craps out there

i just clocked windows 98 install vs. linux install.  to desktop:

windows: 33 min, 12 sec
red hat: 4 min, 8 sec

  :eek:

[voidmain]

MS FDISK is brain dead. Sure it can see there is a partition but it has no clue what it is. It only knows about M$s little world. Linux fdisk is 100 times more useful than M$ FDISK.

[Master of Reality]

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that didnt work, it says some thing like: invalid executable, and then goes back to GRUB.

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by Master of Reality:

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that didnt work, it says some thing like: invalid executable, and then goes back to GRUB.[/b]

Did you try taking the chainloader line out and try it? You could always put the Debian kernel on your RedHat /boot partition and boot it that way as I first suggested. The other option is to use a boot disk for one or the other but I assume you don't want to do that (I wouldn't). It is however a sure fire way to boot both until you get the boot loader on the hard drive working properly.

[Master of Reality]

quote:originaly posted by VoidMain:
Did you try taking the chainloader line out and try it? You could always put the Debian kernel on your RedHat /boot partition and boot it that way as I first suggested. The other option is to use a boot disk for one or the other but I assume you don't want to do that (I wouldn't). It is however a sure fire way to boot both until you get the boot loader on the hard drive working properly.

i tried taking the "chainloder +1" out, but then GRUB wouldnt do anything when i pressed Debian.

I can get into Debian fine using a boot disk, for now.
[ May 02, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]

[ May 02, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]