[openbeos] Re: Disk problems with installing second system

A little warning from experience as well.  I once 
tried to resize a BFS extended partition using 
DriveSetup.  While I fully expected it to hose the 
contents of the partition what it did not expect was
such a complete and utter hosing of my partition table
(actually just 1 byte!) that windows wouldn't boot,
partition magic wouldn't run, and virtually any kind
of thing that glanced at the partition table just
gave up. (including DriveSetup)  The solution?  I got
some web pages on the partition table and fired up
DiskProbe.  A few bits twiddled set me right.  Of 
course openbeos DriveSetup won't suffer from this. :-)

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: "Bruno G. Albuquerque" <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 13:12:25 -0300 (BRT)
Subject: [openbeos] Re: Disk problems with installing second system

I am not 100% sure, but I guess you can install BeOS in a extended 
partition without problems. You just can't create extended partitions 
using DriveSetup.

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