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Re: Fips & DiskDruid problems. Help!

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From: Holy Bird ¥Ã«íªº³¾
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 00:00
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did you do Scandisk and Disk Defragmenter first in Win?
if not, do it before doing FIPS, in case of critial mistakes

Tony Click wrote:

>         I've just purchased 'Linux for Dummies' with the Redhat 5.2
> distribution. In the Fips.exe I try to decrease the amount of space in the
> old partition and increase it in the new partition, but it will only let me
> decrease the amount in the old and 'increase' the amount in the old. Also,
> in disk druid, I am a little confused. I have Win98 using FAT32.  Under the
> 'type' in the mount point row I do not see either a Linux native or Linus
> Swap, only the FAT32. I don't know how to change this. I have tried doing so
> in the edit menu to no avail. I should note here that disk druid is telling
> me I have 2 mount points, both of them are FAT32. The first line has about
> 12200+\- MB will the other has only 98+\-. Should I go to the delete menu
> and wreak havoc on it? I really want to try linux and keep Win98 on my
> current machine (a 486\66) while I evaluate linux. If I like it I'll dump
> Win98. Help, please!

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