I give up on x86-64, its too busted.

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 17 April 2006 02:19, Tim wrote:
>On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 14:52 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I just did that, checked it with a p, then w rote it.  Got this
>> message: Warning: re-reading the partition table failed with error
>> 16: Device or resource busy.  Then I ctl-d'd the shell and let it
>> reboot.  It booted to windows, I rebooted, hit esc, that screen
>> looked like the normal bios screen for selection, with neither hda1
>> nor hda2, just hda being the choices.  I rebooted to the rescue cd,
>> and re-ran fdisk & found that flag was off again.  I've set it
>> again, but when I w the changes, the above error is output.
>
>You weren't trying to change the parameters of a *mounted* drive were
>you?
>
>When you boot into a rescue mode, you've got choices whether or not to
>mount a drive.  Don't mount a drive you want to play with fdisk on.
>
I believe thats what I did, "skip" the search.  So I now have it dual 
booting just fine.  Now I want to borrow the broadcom drivers from the 
windows install & use them with ndsiwrapper, but can't seem to get ntfs 
tools or the ntfs module to load.  See another post on that subject.  
That is the last roadblock I believe.  But this is an i386 install, 32 
bit in other words, so I'm not sure that will work.  I also have 
downloaded a 32 bit driver, but its a self-extracting .exe, and I don't 
know what will unpack that on linux x86.  Maybe it should run, but 
selinux won't allow it, I dunno.

I'm at a disadvantage as I've never before owned a winderz box & don't 
know that much about windows.  Or howto unpack their .exe files.

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