Re: Aftter this ... a new question about Fedora Core 5

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.linux, in article
<dss0e2pg37k49pgolqa00sedsnlht7haic@xxxxxxx>, Graveyard wrote:

Hello Everyone... I have a question... Installing Fedora Core 5 on the
same Hard drive as my Windows. I read in a few books that doing so
can seriously fubar the partitions. I installed and sure enough..
partitions went belly up... I know the partitions were made
correctly...

Apparently the computer didn't agree with you. And of course, like
99.999 percent of the people out there, you didn't have backups.

Unfortunately when this happened I got to remove all my partitions and
start over... Anyone know of a fix for this problem?

No, because you aren't telling us what actually happened. Yes, partitioning
can be deadly. But then, so can using a windoze unfragmenting program, or
driving a car. You can't eliminate all risk, but you can reduce risks
substantially by having all the facts. What did the disk look like before
you started? All one partition? Two? Three? Four? Twenty? Was the entire
disk in use, or were there empty/unused/unpartioned areas? What tool(s)
were you using?

There is a number of HOWTOs and mini-howtos to help:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 39240 May 3 2001 Install-Strategies
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 68456 Jul 8 2002 Installation-HOWTO
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 18850 Mar 13 2000 MultiOS-HOWTO
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 68659 Jan 4 2006 Partition
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 24375 Nov 3 2003 Partition-Rescue
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 22488 Dec 4 2000 Pre-Installation-Checklist

There are also a number of "Linux+*" HOWTOs with information about co-existing
Linux with other operating systems on the same computer.

I'm probably not your best help, as I haven't dual-booted windoze since
1992 (which was really MS-DOS 5.0). At that time, DOS had limitations in
the partition size verses efficiency. Even after DOS 4 broke the 32 Meg
partition limit, making a partition over 128 Megs wasn't the best idea.
Consequently, the 213 Meg disk had two DOS partitions (C: and D:), and I
just moved everything to C: and let Linux have the second partition. A
short time later, I repeated the process on the other computer, which had
a massive 340 Meg drive partitioned as C:, D:, and E: (2 x 128 Meg, 1 x 84
Megs) doing the same thing. Once Linux was working for me, I did new
installs, eliminating DOS and handing the whole drive to Linux. As I'd been
using UNIX for several years before that, I did retain separate partitions,
so that I could put /home and /var on separate partitions for security and
convenience. With /home elsewhere, a new installation could totally replace
the primary partition without concern of loosing data.

Old guy
.

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