Re: Oh, how Mandrake 10 made me laugh!
From: Thomas J. Andrews (tjatari_at_dreamscape.com)
Date: 10/11/04
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Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:47:16 -0400
Q852913745 wrote:
> I'm having a few problems getting on with Linux (SuSE) so I thought I'd
> give Mandrake 10 a spin. I have a second drive, 2 partions, 30Gb windows data
> and stuff, 30Gb backups + more stuff, and 17Gb free space left especially for
> Linux. I told Mandrake to install in the free space.
> Oh how I laughed when I logged back into Windows to find Mandrake sitting
> proudly on a 70Gb+ partion, "Where has it found that amout of space?"
> It's erased my window backups, and squashed all of my remaining data
> onto a 5Gb partion, but I'm NOT bitter! NO I'M NOT!
>
> Oh happy days! :-)
>
> I must remember, "backup the backups".
I had a similar problem installing Mandrake 10.0 on a Windows 98SE
partition. I had a 40 Gb drive partitioned with one FAT32 partition and
had my Windows system on it. I also had an image backup of the Windows
system on a second, seperate drive. I told Mandrake's installer to leave
10 Gb of the first drive for Windows and use the rest for Linux. At the
end of the installation, nothing worked properly and Windows' fdisk
indicated that my 40 Gb drive now contained only a little over 5 Gb!
Also, inexplicably, Mandrake and Windows were now overwriting each other.
The only way I could restore the proper size information to the hd was
to use fdisk to eliminate ALL partitions on that drive. Fortunately, I
was able to restore Windows from the image backup after re-creating the
original single partition using the hd software. I then proceeded to
re-try the Mandrake installation 7 times, each time changing the way I
created the big partition, or the amount of space I left for Windows.
Each time, Mandrake 10.0 messed up in the same way.
Eventually, I installed Mandrake 9.1. This worked flawlessly. Then, I
installed 10.0 again, this time telling the 10.0 installer to use the
existing Linux partitions. That worked fine, and after the usual
fumbling around with system settings, Mandrake 10.0 and Windows 98 have
behaved themselves. (much to my surprise on the part of Win98!)
I tried posting about this problem over on alt.os.linux.mandrake, and
all I got was some attitude and blaming of Windows, even though Windows
had nothing to do with the creation of that original FAT32 partition.
That was done with the hard drive manufacturer's software.
FAT32 is a well-known quanity, and Mandrake 10.0 should be able to
handle it as well as 9.1 does. I hope the new 10.1 doesn't have the same
problem. In any case, this whole situation has me looking strongly at
going to another distro, perhaps Fedora. Mandrake just doesn't seem to
put the same care into testing that they used to.
TJ
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