Problem with Fips

**cokacola650** · 03-02-2006

I am downloading all 3 iso's of mandrivia linux to my computer. i'm using fsum to make sure that i got the whole file downloaded, and i have also used windows defrag to clean up my C: drive (only drive, apart from cd/dvd drive that i have.) well my problem is that whenever i run fips, i get this error message (it happens for other programs too):

C:\Unzipped\Linux\fips20\fips.exe
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT.- The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft WIndows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.

is there any alternative to fips that will safely repartition my c: drive w/ out deleteing my files?

thanks,
cokacola650

**AlexK** · 03-02-2006

is your C: drive formatted as FAT or NTFS? If it is FAT, use FIPS, else get yourself a copy of the Knoppix LiveCD and use the qtparted program on it to repartition the drive.

**cokacola650** · 03-03-2006

yep, its NFTS. thanks for the help

is knoppix a distro of linux? i dont understand is it exactly.

cokacola650

**AlexK** · 03-03-2006

Yes, Knoppix is a Linux distro. Being a LiveCD it runs off the system RAM and no installation is required.

When you go to repartition the drive using knoppix, make sure that the partition you wish to resize is unmounted first. You do this by looking on the desktop for an icon which looks like a hard drive, find the correct one, right click on it and tell it to unmount. Do this before launching QTparted.

Alternatively, you can just do a umount /mnt/hda1 replace hda1 with appropriate partition name.

**cokacola650** · 03-03-2006

sorry, i dont understand how to "unmount" a drive. i am currently using windows xp right now. i was planning on using the mandrixia distro to begin w/ linux. this is my first time ever dealing w/ linux. is there no other program, other than a whole other distro, that will safely repartion a drive?

thanks for the help,
cokacola650

**AlexK** · 03-04-2006

Unmounting the drive in Linux, see my previous post for that i.e. this section:

Originally Posted by AlexK

You do this by looking on the desktop for an icon which looks like a hard drive, find the correct one, right click on it and tell it to unmount.

See the thing is that while the drive is mounted (think of it as accessible) you can't resize it, so you need to unmount it in order to resize it. i.e. make it "unaccessible".

There is no need to physicially unplug the drive or anything, just unmount it in Knoppix and create an empty partition using QTparted.

[QUOTE=cokacola650}is there no other program, other than a whole other distro, that will safely repartion a drive?[/QUOTE]
The program to use is QTparted, but the thing is unless you already have an existing Linux install, there is no way that I know of to get it running in Windows. However, if you just want a program to do it for you and you have the $$$, buy a copy of Partition Magic (preferably a version newer than

to resize the NTFS drive for you.

**cokacola650** · 03-04-2006

ahhh, i think i am beginning to understand this now a little bit better. the only thing is that when i burned the ISO of knoopix onto a cd w/ cdburnerXP pro, i cant boot it. I go into bios and select boot from cd, but i get an error that says MS-DOS doesn't work. i did select that the cd be bootable and set the enumeration type to Hard disk. i'm not sure what went wrong. has anybody ever heard of an error like this before?

thanks,
cokacola650

**deltaflyer** · 03-04-2006

did you burn iso as an image or as data ? you need to burn iso as an image. also, after downloading do an md5 checksum to make sure the download is ok for md5 checksum in windows,try this http://www.fastsum.com/

andy

**cokacola650** · 03-04-2006

yep, after erading the sticky about it i was sure to burn it as an image. i'll check the sum though

thanks,
cokacola650

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