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Help! I've lost my OS!

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From: HOMZ
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 00:00
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I recently purchased the Corel/LINUX
os, hoping to learn a bit more about it, now I've lost it!  I'm in windows,
my system boots to windows, and windows sees the ext2 partition as blank
space.
I would like to know how to get back into my LINUX os from this point, but I
would also like to know how to create an efficient boot file that would
allow me to choose my OS at every start-up.

Well, if you think you can help, here are the specifics of what I have done
to get me to this point:

First I wiped out my HD and set partitions for DOS and Windows.
Second, I installed LINUX on an unpartioned space.  That went well.
Third, I installed DOS on C: and WinNT on D:, that went well also.

At this point, my PC would boot to LINUX, even though C had been set as the
active partition.  LINUX would give me a choice between LINUX or Windows, if
I clicked on Windows, it would send me over to the windows boot file which
would then give me a choice between DOS and WinNT.

(note:  I am using NT here because I am a networking Major and need it at
this time.  However, I wish to use win9x most frequently on this PC)

Finally, I installed WinMe on the D: drive, beside the NT.  This works fine,
I am using it at this moment.  The problem is, I can not figure out how to
access LINUX at all!  The boot process has totally changed, now, when I boot
up, all I get is the option to start Me or NT and Windows and DOS do not see
the EXT2 partition at all.

I have considered reinstalling LINUX, but there is where I ran into trouble
in the first place.  When I first tried to install LINUX into an empty dos
partition, (E), even though I did not tell it to take over the entire HD, it
did wipe out Windows and leave most of my files unsalvagable.  This is the
reason I installed LINUX first and Windows last.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you so much.

Kim
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From: "HOMZ" <kbruner68@earthlink.net>
Subject: Help!  I've lost my OS!
Date: 2000/12/02
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