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To: mappingworld who wrote (10324)	2/5/2000 10:38:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Now attempted to install Corel linux as well. All seemed to go well until it asked me where, ie drive & partition, to put the beast. It said I needed to define the root partition I have never used nor installed LINUX nor used the Partition Magic boot manager. It sounds like you have LINUX installed and are now trying to install the LINUX version of Corel? Does LINUX boot? Is the boot manager working? Does it let you select which OS and then boot to the proper OS? If LINUX is working does any other LINUX program work? Is the problem just with LINUX Corel? It said I needed to define the root partition I always thought the root partition was the first partition on the drive. I believe the boot manager installs itself in the root partition. The boot manager must be the first to boot...it then directs to the chosen OS. A boot manager may hide partitions..making them only visible to the chosen OS. when I just look in my explorer I don't see the partition added. Need I format it? Isn't it already formatted? Did you format it? What format does LINUX use? Win 95/98 will not see drives/partitions with formats it does not recognize. For example if you have NT in an NTFS formatted drive you will not see it in Windows Explorer from a WIN95/98 boot. NT is a little different. It generally sees partitions with formats it can not use. They are assigned drive letters. However if you click on the drive letter in Windows Explorer from NT it will return an error message. Also, if the boot manager is hiding partitions they will not show up...depending on how smart the OS is..a la NT. Hopefully someone with some more specific experience will help. Zeuspaul

To: mappingworld who wrote (10324)	2/6/2000 11:59:00 AM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

I should add that when I just look in my explorer I don't see the partition added. Need I format it? Isn't it already formatted? Sigh? Explorer, Windows, will not see the LINUX partition. Say you have a 8 gigabyte hard disk and you create two 4 gigabytye partitions, one for LINUX and one for Windows. Now when you run Windows, Windows will think and act like you only have a 4 gigabyte hard disk. However, LINUX can access your Windows partition. I know LINUX can read and write to 16 bit FAT files in a Window's partition but I do not know if the capability to read and write to 32 bit FAT files in a Window's partitions has been added to LINUX yet. Do not use DOS/Windows to format your LINUX partition. LINUX uses a different type of file system and will do its own formatting. All seemed to go well until it asked me where, ie drive & partition, to put the beast. It said I needed to define the root partition. It has been about 3 years since I did this and I have forgotten a lot of the details. But it seems like the process went as follows. One you first tell Linux what partition to use. When you ran partition magic, PM, it should have ask what type of partitions you were creating. At this point you should have told PM, one was a Windows/DOS type partition and the other was a LINUX type partition. Pick the LINUX partition. Then eventually you will need to tell LINUX how to divide the LINUX partition. Yes this may sounds confusing but you will end up with a LINUX partition divided into at least three subsections. One for ROOT files, one for SWAP files, and one for USER files. There should be some documentation that came with LINUX that provides recommendations about what size in bytes each of these subsections should be.