I can't partition my hard drive

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From: DarkEagle
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 00:00

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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

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From: "DarkEagle" <rdm@read.msg>
Subject: I can't partition my hard drive
Date: 1998/08/13
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