Help with sharing disks linux/Win95
Christian Cabal
Linux and Win95.
I had tried to divide a drive I had into 3 parts, a DOS
partition for
Win95 to use, and a Linux swap and Linux native partition.
I noticed
that as I used the dos partition more and more while running
Win95,
whenever I booted Linux, I would find my file systems
slightly trashed.
Eventually, my /sbin and /etc directories were totally
trashed and fsck
bombed out...
I had partitioned with Dos in the lower part, Linux native
in the mid,
and swap in the upper section.
Does Win95 treat linux like a virus? Are there any tricks
or procedures
that are necessary to prevent this mess, or do I have to
keep stuff on seperate
disks?
Thanks,
Christian
Richard Payne
If it's not FAT, 95 ignores it. It sounds like you got some other
problem.
Did you shutdown the machine down properly (shutdown -h now) before
hitting the power switch?
It could be that you've got a bad disk and/or controller.
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Christian Cabal wrote in message <361E3E81...@rsn.hp.com>...
Stephen Marley
>Win95 doesn't even know that Linux exists on those partitions.
>If it's not FAT, 95 ignores it. It sounds like you got some other
>problem.
Something similar happened to me the other night when I added a fat
partition, using the NT disk administrator, to my second hard disk which
contained only SuSE linux and a linux swap partition.
On rebooting to linux I noticed that most of my KDE applications crashed
on start up although everything had been fine before adding this
partition. I suspected a corrupt file system and sure enough fsck went
ballastic trying to clean things up. Just to make sure, I reinstalled
all my packages from scratch and I'm glad to say everything is now
working again.
I wonder if the problem stemmed from the fact that this FAT partition
was past 1024 cylinders on the disk ... or was it deliberate sabotage of
the KDE by MS :-)
Bart Lamiroy
>
> Does anyone have much experience sharing a hard disk between
> Linux and Win95.
> I had tried to divide a drive I had into 3 parts, a DOS
> partition for
> Win95 to use, and a Linux swap and Linux native partition.
> I noticed
> that as I used the dos partition more and more while running
> Win95,
> whenever I booted Linux, I would find my file systems
> slightly trashed.
> Eventually, my /sbin and /etc directories were totally
> trashed and fsck
> bombed out...
> I had partitioned with Dos in the lower part, Linux native
> in the mid,
> and swap in the upper section.
>
> Does Win95 treat linux like a virus? Are there any tricks
> or procedures
> that are necessary to prevent this mess, or do I have to
> keep stuff on seperate
> disks?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Christian
I have a similar problem. I have a whole bunch of Linux partitions (/
/usr + 2 swaps), and 2 Fat-32 partitions. Stange enough, Win95 sees 3
partitions where it should only see 2. When using Windows, I sometimes
get corrupted filesytem errors when running Linux afterwards. I never
got to solve this problem.
Bart
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Eberhard Burr
> I have a similar problem. I have a whole bunch of Linux partitions (/
> /usr + 2 swaps), and 2 Fat-32 partitions. Stange enough, Win95 sees 3
> partitions where it should only see 2. When using Windows, I sometimes
> get corrupted filesytem errors when running Linux afterwards. I never
> got to solve this problem.
I've seen this after creating two primary and an extended
partition. Win95 seems to only like one primary FAT partition. Rather
than investigating further, i ditched Win95 completely ;-)
Regards,
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Then I use Linux tools (current fav is Redhat's diskdruid) to do the rest. I have
done 10 systems this way and have never had a problem. And no, I don't think only
10 systems makes me a linux guru :)
Renzo Zanelli
Bart Lamiroy wrote:
> I have a similar problem. I have a whole bunch of Linux partitions (/
> /usr + 2 swaps), and 2 Fat-32 partitions. Stange enough, Win95 sees 3
> partitions where it should only see 2. When using Windows, I sometimes
> get corrupted filesytem errors when running Linux afterwards. I never
> got to solve this problem.
>
> Bart
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> INRIA, 655 avenue de l'Europe
> Tel : +33 4 76 61 52 34 38330 Montbonnot St. Martin - France
One of the things I have done since the beginning was unplug the Linux
drive when installing a Windows OS. The first time I installed Windows95,
the installation crashed trying to get its grubby little paws on the Linux
partition. From that day on, I just unplug the Linux drive, do any
installation or upgrade and then plug it back in. The MS OSes don't know
about it and I am happy to say that the nuisance of unplugging it every
time has paid off with never having had any problems at all. Divide and
conquer!
Renzo
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