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HAHAHA this is funny
Centurian:
Hey,
My wife reminded me that I needed a small windows partition on my system so we can play network games like diablo etc.
So I changed my partitioning and added a small Windows setup (2 gig and 4 gig). I have a W95 OEM copy I use to install base windows. I installed it without any problems or complaints. Then I went to upgrade it to W98 so I could use the 4 Gig Fat32 partition. When W98 got to setting up my hardware I got a message saying...
***************Message Begins***********
There are NO PNP DEVICES on your computer. Testing for NON-PNP DEVICES.
When you buy hardware make sure to buy ONLY PNP DEVICES with the MICORSOFT LABEL on them for compatibility and ease of installation.
***************Message Ends*************
I found this extremely funny and wrote it down word for word so I could pass it on to everyone.
It did take several minutes to find my non-pnp devices but once found they installed as easily as any pnp device in fact easier than most pnp devices.
So now I have a small Windows partition for games and the rest is Mandrake 8.1.
Later
Centurian
jtpenrod:
quote: So now I have a small Windows partition for games and the rest is Mandrake 8.1.
--- End quote ---
Same here. Also here is some friendly advice:
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE RUN DEFRAG - NEVER, EVER, ABSOLUTELY NOT, DON'T DO IT!!!
If you do, that sumbitch will nuke your MBR. You won't be able to boot into either Winders or Mandrake - not even with the emergency boot floppy. (You'll get a "kernel corrupted" error from Linux) Winders will insist you do a system restore from the CD. It'll give you choices ranging from the drastic: a complete reformat, to the mild: update system files in the windows directory. Makes no difference what you choose. On my rig, I chose the mild option. Next, it says it'll take 18 minutes to do this. To restore a few files? No - to nuke those "cancerous", "alien" OSs and the partitions they rode in on. Once this "recovery" was done, all the Winders files were still there, in pristine shape. I had to redo the Mandrake install from square one. Good thing I backed up all my valuable Linux data in Winders. (I don't completely trust His Gatesness) All it cost me was some time. (On the bright side, I'm learning an awful lot about doing Linux installs, and creating and extracting tar archives.)
How do these things happen? Winders says it doesn't recognize Linux partitions, and yet it manages to find the kernel and corrupt it. Defrag is suppose to leave the MBR alone, and yet it "somehow" renders Winders unable to boot. As they say, it's not a bug, it's a feature. I'm convinced there's some hidden code in there that does this deliberately.
I'll give Winders one more chance. But if it *ever* fucks with my Linux partitions again, it's coming off for good. And I will personally take that Winders recovery disk, fly to Redmond, and shove it right up Bill Gates' ass. (Just kidding :D )
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by jtpenrod:
Same here. Also here is some friendly advice:
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE RUN DEFRAG - NEVER, EVER, ABSOLUTELY NOT, DON'T DO IT!!!
--- End quote ---
What? I've never had a problem with this. It sounds to me like you are running a UMSDOS installation of Linux, or you have your Linux kernel booted from your Win partition using something like loadlin.exe, in which case running a defrag would certainly cause this problem. But if you have your entire Linux distribution including the kernel and boot code all on it's own ext2/ext3 partition defrag can't touch it. DOS/Win has no idea how to get outside of it's brain dead filesystem.
Centurian:
Hey,
Hmmmmm that is strange. I have just redone everything recently so I have everything backed up at the moment. I think I will go try it and see if it causes that problem for me.
If I don't post again tonight then you can pretty much guess defrag crashed it. Hopefully I will post again though in a few minutes.
Later
Centurian
Centurian:
Hey,
Ok I tried running Defrag with no problems. It may have something to do with the combination of partitions on the hard drive. I am running Mandrake 8.1 using the ext2 filesystem and Windows 98SE using a Fat16 and a Fat 32 filesystem.
I figured this was a good time to take the risk since I just reinstalled everything. Not alot of extras to lose right.
Hmmm While I am on the subject what is the difference between the Ext2 and Ext3 filesystems?
Later
Centurian
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