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Julian Hall wrote:
Rob Beard wrote:Just a thought... if you haven't got much data on the laptop, could you not just reinstall XP and then install Xandros?Hi Rob,I've done it the same way every time, Windows first, then Linux and up to now it's worked perfectly. It took me a day (time which I no longer have with exams pressing close) to install Windows so I don't *really* want to have to repeat that sorry exercise.How have you got your partitions laid out?hda1 - Windows OS hda5 - Windows (Programs) hda6 - Windows (Games) hda7 - Windows (My Docs)The first four are from memory when I booted Knoppix I'm pretty sure that's how it labelled them.hda8 is Xandros / hda9 is Linux swap hda10 is /home
So just to recap, you can boot XP, or was it Xandros you can boot okay?Not sure if it makes any difference that the / partiton is on an extended partition. IIRC, in the past if Linux was installed on a partition other than the primary partition, a /boot partition was required within the first 1024 cylinders on the drive.
The first 4 partitions are all Windows (FAT32). Reason for that is I never put all my eggs in one basket, so I have partitions for Windows (OS), Windows (programs), Windows (Games) and Windows (My docs) - which Linux can share being able to r/w to a FAT32 partition. Incidentally I have no idea why it's missing hda 2 3 and 4.. any clues? They got labelled that way from scratch.
I'm guessing hda2, 3 or 4 is an extended partition.
I haven't heard anything from Eclipse or the debt collectors since I had the original letter. I'm sure it's not going to go away so quickly, but I've been too busy to chase up whats happening.If you can boot a live Linux CD you should be able (as root) to run fdisk -l /dev/hda (or fdisk -l /dev/sda if it's sata or scsi) to list what partitions are on your drive. (Thats a small letter L by the way, not a number 1)Kind regards, Julian PS any luck with Eclipse?
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