[ltp] RH 9.0 + WinXP on T40

[Bert Haskins]

Hi Greg:
     Were you able to use diskdrake standalone, or did you just start a
normal install and abort after the partition setup?
I just had some real problems with diskdruid not being able to set up
partitions on the last 1/3 of a 80GB drive.
Thanks,
      Bert


Greg Meyer wrote:

>On Monday 16 February 2004 02:50 am, Ramkumar Rengaswamy wrote:
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>>I am using qtparted provided by Koppix to partition my hard-drive. It does
>>not seem to show the HPA at the end of the disk. I dont know if it
>>over-writes the HPA.
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>The HPA is hidden by the BIOS unless you set it to be visible.  This way you 
>cannot hurt it.  If you want to reclaim the space, you may want to get the 
>recovery disks first, then set the BIOS to make the HPA visible.  Once it is 
>visible, you should be able to create a partition on it. 
>
>When I tried to install Fedora Core 1 on the HPA, the disk druid could not 
>make a partition on it, I would get an error.  I ended up using the diskdrake 
>tool from the mandrake 9.2 installer to create the partition and then Fedora 
>went in without a hitch.
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