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It's 11 Jun 97  19:03,
We'll return to q9722124@mail.connect.usq.edu.au and All's
discussion of Help: Installation of Linux

 > I newly bought a PC which I am going to install Linux operating System
 > only. I did tell the dealer that I don't want any MS stuff installed on
 > PC and when I got it I found there must be some MS stuff installed
 > because I have seen the following when I turn the power on.
 >
 > PCI device listing .......
 >
 > Bus No. Device No. Func No. Vendor ID Device ID   Device class      IRQ
 >    0           7          1      8086    7010    IDE Controller      14
 >    0           10         0      1023    9660    Dispaly Controller  11

That's your PnP BIOS telling you what it's found in the machine. :-)

 >
 > Starting Windows95 ......

Now this is definitely MS stuff! :)
 >
 > IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM Device Driver Version 2.11 17:30:39  06/07/96
 > CD-ROM drive #0 found on 170 port slave device, vQS14
 >
 > MSCDEX Version 2.25
 > Copyright (c) Microsoft corp. 1986-1995. All right reserved
 >          Drive D: = Driver MSCD001 unit 0
 >
 > 531056 bytes free memory
 > 0      bytes expanded memory
 > 13030  bytes CODE
 > 2122   bytes static DATA
 > 12618  bytes dynamic DATA
 > 28016  bytes used
 >
 > c:\>

Eeeek!  Who was the butcher who installed it anyway?  A 16 bit driver
under Win 95!!!

 > I tried to install Linux and got to the stage of partition disks. the
 > following is what I got
 >
 > This is the fdisk program for partitioning your drive. It is ruuning
 > on /dev/hda.
 >
 > command (m for help): P
 >
 > Disk /tmp/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 621 cylinders
 > units=cylinders of 8064*512 bytes
 >
 > Device    Boot   Begin    Start     End   Blocks    Id    Sytem
 > /tmp/hda   *      1         1        62   2503840+   c    Unknown
 >
 > Partition 1 has different physical/logical ends:
 >   phys=(619, 127, 63) logical=(620,127,63)
 > command(m for help):
 >
 > Now my problem is that I don't know how can I delet the first partition
 > which seems to me a DOS partition and there is no DOS fdisk on the
 > system.
 >
 > Thanks so much in advance,
 >
 > Jun Zhou.

 q9> They got you a good one. If you only want to use linux then use
 q9> linux's fdisk

Linux's FDisk will remove the partition.  The only reason to use DOS's
(or Win 95's for that matter) FDISK is to _create_ a partition for DOS
(or related) systems.

 q9> to delete the dos partition which is actully a Windows 95 OSR2
 q9> partition.
 q9> You can then create a nice big linux partition and a fairly large swap
 q9> partition.
 q9> If you are using RedHats nice little dos program you may want to use
 q9> "Partition Magic" one the drive to keep the dos cd-rom drivers if
 q9> something goes wrong.

Since Win 95 is already installed, it might be worth considering the
Partition Magic option to preserve what's there and carve off space for
linux, and have a dual bootable system (LILO will do that nicely :) ).

That way, if you need that elusive DOS driver, or someone hands you a
Windoze program to run, you'll be able to do it.  As it's a FAT32
partition, Linux support is not yet available (but not far off from what
I read).

... I used Kermit once, but the files wound up with warts !
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