<html><body>Thanks again Steve.<br /><br />I ran into a problem with mlabel.<br /># cat /etc/mtools.conf shows the final line as: drive x: file="/dev/sdf1" but:<br /># mlabel x:<br />Result:<br />Initial byte of fat is not 0xff<br />Cannot initialize 'X:'<br />mlabel: Cannot initialize drive<br /><br /><br /># cfdisk -P s /dev/sdf<br />This will print the partition table to the screen in sector order format.<br />Result:<br /><br />Partition Table for /dev/sdf<br /><br /> First Last<br /> # Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flag<br />-- ------- ----------- ----------- ------ ----------- -------------------- ----<br /> Pri/Log 0 2047* 0# 2048*Free Space None<br /> 1 Primary 2048* 312496127* 0 312494080*HPFS/NTFS (07) None<br /> Pri/Log 312496128* 312496379 0 252*Free Space None<br /><br /><br />But how do I get my disk partitioned into three partitions of 50GB each, with geometry that will get recognised by XP?<br /><br /> <br />
Best Regards,<br />Fay<br />East Grinstead Linux User Group<br />www.eglug.org.uk<br /><br /></body></html>