Re: I can't partition my hard drive

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From: kluster
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 00:00

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DarkEagle wrote:
> 
> I've heard a lot of talk about Linux and open source software, so I decided
> that I wanted to look in and see what exactly Linux was.  Weeellll, I sat
> down to get started installing Slackware Linux and I couldn't partition my
> hard drive.   I tried using FIPS and it told me that my last cylinder wasn't
> empty.  I had run windows defrag immediatly before running FIPS.  I was
> wondering if Windows might've written something to my hard drive while I was
> closing down windows95.  I thought of using Dos defrag, but I noticed that
> when we installed Win95 it was overritten with win defrag.  Can anyone help
> me?
> 
> Ryan
> E-Mail me at RDM@inlink.com
Why do you cross-post?  What is the point of having different ng's if
you are going to spread your beans all over?  You are pissing-off some
people who may have wanted to reply...
AARrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,,,,,,,,,,,,

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From: kluster <canona_againstbulkmail_@usa.net>
Subject: Re: I can't partition my hard drive
Date: 1998/08/14
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