Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

[Kourosh <debian@mindwaresystems.com>]

Jerry,

One thing you may want to try is to use W2K's disk management
tools to delete the last partitioan, i.e. G:, then reboot
so that it is no longer recognized as drive G: in Windows.
That should clear up the problem with Explorer trying to
read the G: drive.

Then you can go ahead and use cfdisk to create partitions in
the unused space and install debian.

BTW, I've had no problems dual booting with W2K using Lilo
installed in the MBR.  Just remember to create an entry for
both OS's before rebooting =)

Hope this helps..

Kourosh

On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:47:39PM +0100, jerry k wrote:
> I'm new to GNU/Linux & Debian and am having a problem with installing to a
> system running Win2k.  I've done a lot of reading on the dual-boot subject
> but haven't seen anything to make me believe there's anything wrong with my
> setup.  Basically, my partitions looked like this:
> 
> Primary:  C: / hda1
> Primary, extended  {
>     D: / hda5
>     E: / hda6
>     F: / hda7
>     G: / hda8        }
> 
> hda8 was fairly large and mostly unused so I deleted it using partition
> magic in DOS and created hda8, 9 & 10 (for /, /home & swap) using cfdisk.
> Debian installed just fine :-) and i made a boot disk in the meantime
> (rather than installing lilo) with the aim of dd'ing the bootsector to c:
> and using winboot (or whatever they call it) for switching, at least until I
> figure out lilo.conf.
> 
> The problem occurred when i booted up Windows.  It took forever, maybe about
> 10 minutes with lots of disk activity, and when it had booted explorer was
> sloooow; not annoyingly slow, catastrophicly slow, taking 2 minutes to show
> a context menu.  hda8/9/10 now showed up in Windows as Local Disk G:,
> filesystem type unknown, and it became clear that the problem only occurs
> when explorer needs to show G: in MyComputer, save dialogs and the like.
> 
> I've now deleted the extended partition completely and so can be flexible
> with the partitioning scheme.  3 vfat Primary partitions and one extended
> for Debian would be acceptable, but I'd like to know what the problem is,
> since I've seen similar setups work for other people with no problems and it
> seems a bit limiting to not allow Windows and Debian to share the extended
> partition.
> 
> Any advice or pointers to info would be much appreciated.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Jerry K