RE: [rhn-users] RE: doubt in linux

[venkatasubramaniam <ayya vsnl net>]

jonathan,peter
     i have a doubt.recently,i had installed partition magic in my
system.instead of uninstalling it, i maid a mistake and deleted the boot
magic folders. i was faced with a serious problem. i was unable to reinstall
boot magic . it was a mess. my friend recommended fdisk.it worked and boot
magic didn't cause any problem during booting.it remained though. now, can u
tell me exactly what this fdisk does?if i apply it to my win partition ,
will anything happen to my data and my win os?can u also tell me the exact
procedure?
thanks,
badri.


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From: rhn-users-admin redhat com [mailto:rhn-users-admin redhat com]On
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Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 10:20 PM
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Subject: [rhn-users] RE: doubt in linux


venkatasubramaniam,

I agree with Peter about using fdisk to confirm that your partitions
are where and what you think they are. But a caveat, my experience
and comments I've received say to it is much better to actually
create DOS/VFAT file systems using MicroSoft's software. Makes
sure there are no problems for MS. Of course linux is continually
improving and the latest versions of mkfs.msdos && mkfs.vfat may
be acceptable.

If the Dos partitions(c: e: ??) are already created and booting
then just use fdisk to confirm that all the parameters are correct.
An aside: linux's fdisk can create/remove and modify MS partitions,
MS's fdisk cannot create/remove or modify linux partitions.

J.


>have you tried to use fdisk on you devices? I had difficulties once
>because I had given the wrong type of file system. So maybe you do
>"fdisk /dev/hdb" (or where you win partitions are) and first check the
>fs type. (Do that using the "p" command.) If fdisk finds the devices,
>and confirms that they are vfat, the next question would be whether you
>already did the "mkdir /mnt/c" (or whereever you want to mount your
>devices), and reasonable modes (I always give the generous 777).
>But you said, mount didn't find your devices...
>Besides: What is matlab?
>
>Cheers, Peter
>
>venkatasubramaniam wrote:
>
>
>
>>  hello everyone,
>>         i am a new user just registered with redhat.i am unable to mount
>>C:,D: or E:(windows) from linux. even if i give the correct partition name
,
>>it says that these drives are not found.what do i do?
>>can anyone suggest me a method to run matlab 6.1.0 in linux?
>>   if anybody has any solution, please forward it.
>>badri.
>>
>>


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