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Re: Fips & DiskDruid problems. Help!

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From: Matty
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 00:00
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You need to repartition your hard drive to fat 16 not 32. Redhat 5.2 came
out before 98 hence forth it does not know what fat 32 is...
Holy Bird ��� wrote in message <37A30CAA.2E0AD63E@vvm.com>...
>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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Subject: Re: Fips & DiskDruid problems. Help!
Date: 1999/08/05
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