Re: Newbie needs help re drives and installation

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From: Steven Blunt
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 00:00

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On Thu, 07 Jan 1999 10:17:30 +1100, in aus.computers.linux John James
<doublej@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I wish to install RH 5.2 on my Win95 machine which has Drive E: (890 Mb)
>free for this.  However when I try to install I am offered drive hda1
>and hda2 and advised to delete the DOS details for hda2.
>
>I am afraid to do this as I feel this will also wipe all the data I have
>on drive D: which also resides on hda2.

You have two DOS drives on one partition? Try typing p in fdisk and post
that.

cya

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