Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install
On approximately 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 have had a similar problem when dualbooting with XP. The problem is when you
create partitions within Windows Windows thinks that the said partitions are
Windows native so it goes and tries to "mount" the partitions even though they
have an ext2 filesystem. What you need to do is create the partitions from
within Linux, and Windows will not try to use the partitions anymore.
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