Linux parbreastion interferes with Win CD startup 5072

the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:

What you are saying makes no sense. First of all, you removed Windows ME from your hard disk in order to install Gnu-Linux. Still you know nothing of the filesystem structure, but you do know enough to link a filesystem structure to parbreastioning. This is totally contradictory.

Additionally, if you want to know how your disk is parbreastioned, you could simply open up a terminal and run either of the two following commands... (buttuming you have only one standard IDE hard disk):

fdisk -ldev-hda catetc-fstab

You also say that you are out of memory, which shows because you can't start any programs. With your knowledge, how does this equate to any parbreastioning layout? Windows does not consider a parbreastion on a hard disk as "memory", especially not an MS-DOS-based Windows version such as ME.

If it tells you it's out of memory, then I would seriously suggest checking your memory modules. Check for dust and eventually re-seat them. Run a memory checker such asmemtest86to verify whether your RAM is showing any faults.

As you are running a Windows ME installer - which is DOS-based - check your conventional memory at a DOS prompt. You may have loaded too manyterminate-stay-residentprograms. Remember that DOS can only access 640 KB directly.

The DOS command to check the memory is...

memc

... if I recall correctly. Pipe it throughmoreto see the output in a paged way, i.e.:

memc more

I don't think it's possible to install Windows ME over a LAN. You can of course always remove the Gnu-Linux parbreastion(s) from within Gnu-Linux.

-- With kind regards,

*Aragorn* (Registered Gnu-Linux user #223157)