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From: Rod May
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 00:00

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Manfred Bartz <mbartz@werple.net.au> writes:

>FIPS is not a good choice IMO.  It _can_ get you a Linux partition if
>you absolutely, positively, have no other choice.

>You would be far better off partitioning your HD such that your FAT
>partitions do not exceed 500MB (8KB clusters) or maybe 1GB (16KB
>clusters).  For Linux, you should allow at least one ordinary ext2

True, but these are not mutually exclusive.

Use FIPS to create a second DOS partition, back up your first partition
there, reformat your first partition to get the right cluster size,
copy your DOS data back and install Linux over the second.

For many people who don't have any other way to back up their data,
only FIPS makes this possible...

cheers
       Rod.

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From: stoke@labyrinth.net.au (Rod May)
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Date: 1997/05/28
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