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Article #4326Re: How do I install Redhat5 on existing win98?
From: shash
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 00:00
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I used partition magic to do so and since i was careless i erased all my stuff. since then i have smartened up and have reinstalled linux about ten times and have not lost a thing. So if you decide to use partition magic then know what you are doing before you start. On Thu, 13 Aug 1998 07:23:43 GMT, staplei@planet.ari.dpi.qld.gov.au (Ian Staples) wrote: >"Andrew C." <andrewcny@hotmail.com> writes: > >>Michael wrote: >>> >>> I was faced with a similar challenge, and here is what I found: >>> >>> 2. Although Partition Magic is supposed to be able to reparition even FAT32 >>> without losing any of your data ... I still lost all my data. [...] > >What version of Partition Magic were you using? I suspect it's only >fairly recent versions that handle FAT32 -- then again, I guess you >could expect it not to do anything if it couldn't recognise the format! > >I used version 3.04 to partition a FAT32 drive into C: and D: without >any problems at all. (That was under Win95, not 98 though.) > >Cheers, Ian S. > > >-- > >Ian Staples MS-Mail: staplesi@dpi.qld.gov.au >c/- P.O. Box 1054 MAREEBA Phone : +61 (0)70 928 555 Home 924 847 >Queensland Australia 4880 Fax : +61 (0)70 923 593 " " "
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,56217c8b839a8fe3 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public X-Google-Thread: faa64,56217c8b839a8fe3 X-Google-Attributes: gidfaa64,public X-Google-Thread: 100a19,56217c8b839a8fe3 X-Google-Attributes: gid100a19,public X-Google-Thread: 11033e,56217c8b839a8fe3 X-Google-Attributes: gid11033e,public X-Google-Thread: 10a997,56217c8b839a8fe3 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a997,public From: SHASH@BLAH.COM (shash) Subject: Re: How do I install Redhat5 on existing win98? Date: 1998/08/16 Message-ID: <35d65eb8.5038287@NEWS.EMPNET.COM> X-Deja-AN: 381486710 References: <35cbfc57.0@tpg.com.au> <6qh5mk$4310@mars.online.uleth.ca> <35CDBF46.285894C4@ign.com.au> <35D08BAF.5B45592B@hotmail.com> <ExM9vJ.1AB@planet.ari.dpi.qld.gov.au> Newsgroups: ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,be.comp.os.linux