"Bill Marcum" <bmarcum@iglou.com> wrote in message
news:u8amr3-g2k.ln1@don.localnet...
> On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:44:06 -0400, Joe B.
> <herzbua@rogers.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> > Hi Bill,
> > I always get :fdisk: invalid option -- 1, I never press the - more than
> > once. Sorry I do not get the ID thing.
> That's the letter l, not the number 1, and you need to specify which
> drive, probably /dev/hda.

Files systems have ID types that are labeled as numbers/letters. A swap
type is one designation (sorry I don't remember them off the top of my
head) and FAT32 has another type and the labels are all different. What
the other poster was trying to get at was that under XP it might not have
the ID that XP expects and that is why XP isn't "working" correctly.
I am not familiar with the distibution you are using but I did have a couple
of other questions that might shed some light:

1. what is the size and order of the hds and the master/slave config
of the drives in your system?
2 did the system have xp on it first (I assume so) when you added linux?
3. did you addd the third hd just before you added linux?
4. did XP "see" the hd with the fat32 partition before you added linux?

I know that some partition managers have the option to list all of the
partitioin types it supports. If you do a help function, it may tell you
what that command is to list them.

later,
charles.....