Q: howdy
i recently removed and installed Mandrake Ubuntu over it. I used the existing partitions on Mandrake. I have two drives, a raptor with all the windows, and a 80 GB HD with 40 gigs of FAT32 (used for moving things between Windows + Linux) and 40 performances of the Linux ext3 partition. Mandrake lilo used to identify windows and I could start in just fine. grub. There are no grub commands I can use to make sure windows recognizes? there fat/fat16/fat32 drivers I should download? my floppy drive does not recognize FAT formatted floppy disks, but it recognizes my thumb drive formatted fat. I need some input. Also, if you have any suggested fixes, make sure you have a list of all the steps and commands, because Im pretty new to linux and I probably will not know what your talking about.
i know my windows partition is still there because I booted using Knoppix as a rescue disk and recognized everything, even the NTFS formatted raptor. Anyway, help is appreciated.
Best Answer: do you have the ubuntu install disks available, you will have to boot from "live disk", the CD or DVD and use the formating tools, on the ubuntu to reformat the Hard Drive to something the XP install disk can recognize, either FAT 32, or NTFS,
And or repartition the drive with the formatting tools that are available to both ubuntu, and XP
best of luck.
Re:i just gave up and put mandrake back on with lilo bootloader. lilo autodetected the windows partition. i'm not sure about mandrake, every time i try and install something there's some package i'm missing. when i go get that package, i'm missing a package to install IT. it's kind of annoying. i'm going to research some more before i put ubuntu back on. thanks for the help.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
as to why i need hand holding, i don't have internet on my computer and i don't feel like trucking to the damn library every time i run into a command i don't know/understand. if you don't want to do this, you don't have to post.
You're on the internet now. There is always the man command, which will explain things.
default 0
timeout 5
# Windows OS
title Windows 2000
# Can I skip the next two lines if I use this? [ rootnoverify (hd0,0) ]
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
# Linux OS
title Linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 root=/dev/hda1 ro
Re:as to why i need hand holding, i don't have internet on my computer and i don't feel like trucking to the damn library every time i run into a command i don't know/understand. if you don't want to do this, you don't have to post.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
howdy
i just recently uninstalled mandrake and installed ubuntu over it. i used the existing partitions from mandrake. i have 2 disks, 1 raptor with all windows on it, and one 80 gb hd with 40 gigs of fat32 (used for moving things between windows + linux) and 40 gigs of ext3 linux partition. mandrake's lilo used to recognise windows and i could boot into it fine. grub doesn't. are there any grub commands i can use to make sure windows is recognised? are there fat/fat16/fat32 drivers i need to download? my floppy drive doesn't recognise fat formatted floppies, but it does recognise my fat formatted thumb drive. i need some input. also, if you have any suggested fixes, make sure you list all the steps and commands because i'm rather new to linux and i probably won't know what your talking about.
i know my windows partition is still there because i booted using knoppix as a rescue disk and it recognised everything, even the nfts formatted raptor. anyway, help is appreciated.
Add the Windows installation to the grub configuration. The rest of this is nonsense. :confused:
Regarding the bolded part: Why should we hold your hand? google.com/linux is available to you too after all. And hell, I've posted a sample config on anandtech before.
Re:Make sure you cross post this on the forums at Ubuntu.com.
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