Mandrake & Win2k Pro

[freejoe76]

gStone (and others) --

I just installed Mandrake Linux on a partition of my Win2000 pro drive ... the linux part works fine. Windows does too, with a major exception: it tries to read the partition every time I open "My Computer". Since the drive is now using a different file system, it hangs and hangs ... which has become a big ol' thorn in my side.

I haven't found a workaround yet -- can you think of one?


thanks,
Joe

[gstone4911]

Hate your having problems Joe all I can say is I have
had no hangs or problems at all.
My primary Windows partitions are FAT32 and I assume
your 2000pro partition is NTFS. I don't know if that would
make any difference.

I did notice that if I used Mandrake to create its partition,
my Partition Magic would show the entire primary HD as BAD.
( because of the diferent file systems)
But if I use PM8 to create the Ext 3 partition. PM sees the Pri. HD as normal.

[smurfy]

Hi Joe. I have split your problem from enat66's thread into a new thread so we can look at it properly.

When you installed Mandrake, did it format the partition with the Linux file system or did it continue using NTFS file system (I know Red Hat can perform this sort of partitionless install)?

A Linux partition should be invisible to Windows.

[freejoe76]

Hi Smurfy,

On the install, Mandrake converted one of my partitions into the Linux file system ... it turned another of my partitions into a swap drive, which Windows doesn't seem to have any problems with ...

-Joe

[freejoe76]

hi,

I killed all the linux partitions, but when I attempt the win/linux next I'll drop a line with results --

-joe

[ICE BLUE]

Here is the best way to go about this


ON a fresh HD create one fat32 partition with the amound of HD space u want and install win2k then load Mandrake and let it create its EXT3 and SWAP partitions on the unalicated space.
swap should be double amount of ram. it will create a HOME allso as a JERNALIST file but I dont like this unless more then one user wil be on the system.

If you allredy have win2k install resize the partion to what u want so u have unalicated space do not rezize in LINUX. now load mandrake and as above let it partions the UNALICATED!!!! space you will no longer have problums wiht the partions..

and no mandrake does not do that pointless red hat NTFS anyways redhat sucks but thats my opinion