Re: GCC 3.1 / Ada / Cygwin / Win2k ?

[Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com>]

Preben Randhol wrote:
> Wes Groleau wrote:
> 
>>Not sure.  I booted up Linux (Mandrake) and verified that it
>>filled less than two Gigabytes of a twelve GB partition.
>>
>>So I put the install CD in, and reinstalled.  When I got
>>to that point,  I selected the second 12 GB partition and
>>split it into nine and three.  Formatted the nine to NTFS
>>and the three to standard Unix.  Installed Linux, and tried
>>to reboot.  Goes through about a screen and a half of
>>startup messages and then hangs.  Vulcan nerve pinch and
>>power button disabled--have to unplug.
> 
> 
> You mean you ran fdisk or similar on a mounted disc and repartitioned
> it?

No.  I booted the Linux Install CD and tried to use that to repartition
the _second_ partition (which Win2K calls D: but is unable to read).
This partition had Linux on it at the time, but it was at the beginning
of a twelve Gig partition, leaving eleven Gig empty.   I tried to split it
into 9 NTFS and 3 Linux.  This appeared to succeed, and installing Linux
into the three appeared to succeed.  Obviously, installing Linux the
first time in D: (which included splitting the 15 Gig D: into twelve and
three and reformatting to UFS and swap) did succeed the first time.

> Not sure I understand the setup. Did you have the linux partition before
> the NT partition or after? I think windows will choke if you suddenly
> create a partition before what is usually C: as this will then become D:

After.  See above.

>>Selected NT from LILO boot menu.  Screen says "Loading NT..."
>>and nothing else for many minutes.  Vulcan nerve pinch and
>>power button disabled again.
> 
> Did you run lilo after installing Linux.

LILO runs at startup automatically.  That's where I select
which OS to boot.

> Hmm this sounds very odd. I have never experienced anything like it, but
> I'm not clear on how your disc looked like before you tried. But if you
> used some program like partition magic or similar to spilt a partition
> into two then this is not a safe way.

The partitioning/formatting tool is a built-in part of the Linux install
sequence.  It worked the first time, trashed the disk this time.  I've got 
Windows back now, but since it is 50% of my job and I have separate Solaris 
machines for the other 50%, I'm reluctant to try again.  :-)

I've forgotten how we got to this from a subject line of
    Re: GCC 3.1 / Ada / Cygwin / Win2k ?

:-)