Re: Disk Druid and Windows 95 extended LBA partitions

[Agustin Navarro <anavarro vip eniac com>]

On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Manuel A. McLure wrote:

> I was trying to install Red Hat 5.2 on a new 16.8G hard drive last night,
> and ran into some problems. This drive is shared with Windows 95 OSR2, and
> was edited using fdisk as follows:
> 
> /dev/hda1	/boot partition for Red Hat (8M)
> /dev/hda2	Primary Windows 95 partition (8000M)
> /dev/hda3	LBA extended Windows 95 partition (rest of disk)
> /dev/hda5	Windows logical drive (512M)
> /dev/hda6	Red Hat swap (128M)
> /dev/hda7	Red Hat swap (128M)
> /dev/hda8	/ partition for Red Hat (7000+M)
> 
> When I went into Red Hat fdisk, it saw all the partitions without a problem
> - it understood that /dev/hda3 was a Windows 95 LBA extended partition. But
> when further into the Red Hat installation it went into Disk Druid so that I
> could assign the partitions to filesystems, it only showed /dev/hda1,
> /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda3! /dev/hda3 was shown as type 0x0f and none of the
> logical partitions within it were shown.
> 
> Is there any way to assign partitions during Red Hat installation without
> going through the Disk Druid step (i.e. edit the fstab by hand)?

According to my experience, I have bad news for you, Manuel.

1. Kernel 2.0.36-3 has support for 'very large' HDD. Maybe there is support for
'very large' HDD in earlier kernels but I do not know. The RPM's etc are in the
update.redhat.com FTP server. You will need this.

2.  When you format the disk with the W95/MS FDISK, in order to install WINDOWS
95, IT is changed in a non compatible way with LINUX. SO, you have to decide if
you want LINUX or WINDOWS, but you can not have both. I think the maximum HDD
that you can have with both Windows and Linux is 8.4 GB. 

3. Should you decide to have only Linux, you have to use the LINUX FDISK and
recreate the partition table without the DOS COMPATIBILITY FLAG (Option c).

Maybe there is a patch for W95 but I did not find it and I just forgot about
installing windows in the large HDD.


HTH

regards, Agustin

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