HELP! any experices w/ win 98 + linux in an extended partition?

petravick@FNAL.GOV ("petravick@FNAL.GOV")
Tue, 17 Aug 1999 10:30:01 -0500 (CDT)

Hi

My hard disk at home has:

Two partitions, the second parition was carved out w/FIPS under DOS after
Windows 98 was installed.

Windows 98 is in the first partition
The second partition is an extended partition
- an EXT2 file system
- another EXT2 file system
- Linux swap

After I did this, my real CDROM drive became E:
"My computer" shows another CDROM drive at D:

All attempts to access this D: drive hang windows for about 1 minute.

Occasionally applications hang winodws for about 1 minute. I think
the applicatiosn are examining all drives, and this is just another
symptom of the problem.

I guess I need some advice on how to admin win98 to make it forget about the
Bougus "D:" drive.

I am not a skilled windows admin, andt I cannot find any way to tell windows
to forget about the "D:" drive by exploring the menus. However Exploring the
menus is painful, becasue it provokes more of these one minute hangs.