possibly a bad error

[Sean McMahon]

This might not help you but you could always remove the key from the harddrive
and just put the authorization disk in when you want to start jaws.  Jaws only
needs to see the key when it starts. Sean
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Clower" <steve at steve-audio.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 8:12 AM
Subject: RE: possibly a bad error


Hi Cecil,
  As far as I know, there is only one Fat32 partition on my hard disk. I am
wanting to set up a duel-boot system and keep Windows 2000 on the computer so I
can use my audio software. I am concerned with placing a boot partition before
the main Windows partition, because that could damage the JFW key I have
installed on the machine. If I recall, the authorization sets a few bits in
actual disk cylinders to true to verify the existence of the authorization. If I
can repartition the first 100 or so MB and create a boot partition without
messing up my authorization, then that's what I will do. As you said, I'll wait
for some confirmation before attempting anything which could possibly wreck the
existing partition.
Thanks,
Steve



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On 3/1/2004 at 9:29 AM Whitley CTR Cecil H wrote:

>Hi,
>In your email you said..
>*snip*
>>About two seconds after I hit OK in Disk Druid to tell it to create my
>partitions, I get an >error saying the space was not able to be allocated.
>In some instances, it tells me that it was >unable to create a primary
>partition. Is it absolutely necessary that I use a primary partition >to
>install Linux? A friend told me that logical partitions preformatted to
>EXT2
>would work just >as well.
>*snip*
>First, a hard drive can only contain four (4) primary partitions.  It may
>optionally contain three (3) primary and one extended partition.  If you
>are
>trying to exceed this limit, you would recieve the error you are seeing.
>Are you trying to set up a dual boot system, or are you trying to create
>more than four primary partitions?  Depending on the hardware you have, you
>may need to have at least the /boot partition within the first 4GB of the
>hard drive.  Any other partitions may be defined as "logical" drives within
>an extended partition.  If you use a "/" partition within the first four
>(4)
>GB of your hd, remember to establish partitions and mountpoints for /var,
>/usr and /home.  Optionally I *believe* you can do a /boot at the front of
>your hd and a "/" partiition within the extended partition which will have
>everything else under it.  I would get confirmation of this from others on
>this list before implementing it though, because it's a guess not a fact.
>Regards,
>Cecil
>
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