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Hi,

See
  http://www.bigfoot.com/~swietanowski 
    -> Linux FAQ
       -> Linux and Windows coexisting peacefully, q. 6

HTH,
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Since Win98 can see the partition, you obviously installed to UMSDOS.
Native Linux ext2 partitions are totally invisible under Windows.

Best fix: Back up, wipe the partition, reformat as ext2 and reinstall. You
get a performance boost that way.

Second choice: What Artur suggested.

George

Ranga <ranga@powerup.com.au> wrote in article <382b29dd@grissom>...
> Is there any way to hide the linux partition (in this case d:) in Windows
> 98?  A have a particular problem with Norton Antivirus and I wish to hide
> this partition in 98.  Also, seeing as 98 can't read it anyway, there is
no
> real need to see it.
> 
> Regards
> Rangaj
> 
> 
> 

[Posted and mailed]

In article <382b29dd@grissom>,
	"Ranga" <ranga@powerup.com.au> writes:
> Is there any way to hide the linux partition (in this case d:) in Windows
> 98?  A have a particular problem with Norton Antivirus and I wish to hide
> this partition in 98.  Also, seeing as 98 can't read it anyway, there is no
> real need to see it.

There's something wrong with your installation. Two possibilities occur to
me:

1) Your Linux partition type is mis-labeled. Use Linux's fdisk to change
   the partition type codes of all Linux partitions to 0x83 (Linux
   filesystems) or 0x82 (Linux swap).
2) You may have some unpartitioned space left on the hard disk that
   Windows is interpreting as a blank partition, or some sort of
   corruption in your partition table.

-- 
Rod Smith       smithrod@bellatlantic.net
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~smithrod
Author of _Special Edition Using Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux_, from Que

I installed with Native Linux ext2 and Win98 sees my Linux partition as
well. I'm running Norton Utilities. Maybe this is why??

Julian

In article <80grtd$j9p$1@the-fly.zip.com.au>,
  "jbs" <julians@zip.com.au> wrote:
> I installed with Native Linux ext2 and Win98 sees my Linux partition
as
> well. I'm running Norton Utilities. Maybe this is why??

Did you create primary or extended partition. The first time I use
Parttion manager I created a primary partition and windows saw it,
messed up drive letters too. Next install I did an extended partition
and put linux there. Invisible.

cheers.
--
David Turley
dturley@pobox.com
http://www.binary.net/dturley


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Before you buy.

I have my linux installed as an extened partition(ext2) and htere is no
way for Windows to see it. guess the sugestion or saving your stuff and
repartitioning is good...the machine performance will increase.

-karthik


In article <80h4g1$ld0$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  David Turley <dturley@pobox.com> wrote:
> In article <80grtd$j9p$1@the-fly.zip.com.au>,
>   "jbs" <julians@zip.com.au> wrote:
> > I installed with Native Linux ext2 and Win98 sees my Linux partition
> as
> > well. I'm running Norton Utilities. Maybe this is why??
>
> Did you create primary or extended partition. The first time I use
> Parttion manager I created a primary partition and windows saw it,
> messed up drive letters too. Next install I did an extended partition
> and put linux there. Invisible.
>
> cheers.
> --
> David Turley
> dturley@pobox.com
> http://www.binary.net/dturley
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>


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Before you buy.

jbs wrote:
> 
> I installed with Native Linux ext2 and Win98 sees my Linux partition as
> well. I'm running Norton Utilities. Maybe this is why??

No. I pointed you to reply already:
  http://www.bigfoot.com/~swietanowski 
    -> Linux FAQ
       -> Linux and Windows coexisting peacefully, q. 6

HTH,
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Artur Swietanowski               http://www.bigfoot.com/~swietanowski
Institut f�r Statistik,  Operations Research  und  Computerverfahren,
Universit�t Wien,     Universit�tsstr. 5,    A-1010 Wien,     Austria
tel. +43 (1) 427 738 620                     fax  +43 (1) 427 738 629
---------------------------------------------------------------------

In article <382C2DC7.122286BE@bigfoot.com>,
  Artur Swietanowski <swietanowski@bigfoot.com> wrote:

> No. I pointed you to reply already:
>   http://www.bigfoot.com/~swietanowski
>     -> Linux FAQ
>        -> Linux and Windows coexisting peacefully, q. 6

First of all, ANY linux distribution can be installed in a windows
partition, using either UMSDOS or loopacks. I wonder why you state that
only phat and winlinux support it. Heck, Slackware is the oldest, (and
most stable IMHO) and comes with *2* UMDOS-based installs already
configured.

My windows 98 has absilutley no problem with the extended partition that
holds my linux logical partitions. The linux stuff is totally invisible
to windoze.

--
David Turley
dturley@pobox.com
http://www.binary.net/dturley


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Before you buy.

Well I had a look in fdisk(Windows98 boot disk). There is no drive letter
assignment for my Linux partition.
All it has is D(which is my Win 98 partition) and the size details of my
Linux partition/s(no letter).

By the way the reason Win98 is D is because I am running another HDD with NT
on it (C,E)
NT can't see my Linux partition, Fdisk can't either.
I wonder why Win98 can???