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Name: markp Date: April 9, 2001 at 17:34:59 Pacific
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My 2 cents.
Ive tried to put 7.2 on a fat32 4-5 times never seems to work might just be me. But if I were you I would defrag win,then boot with 7.2 disk.Use GRUB to resize the fat32 so you would have bout 3 gigs empty then let mandrake make its own partitions.. Just my 2 cents. And remember you could loose all data So make sure you understand what your doing defour you do it...
good luck,
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Response Number 2
Name: arturo Date: April 9, 2001 at 20:52:50 Pacific
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Is not a good idea to install Linux on a MSfat partition, because ... a million of reasons. Try to defrag your windows partition using not optimize the programs option in the advanced button. When it is defrag, you can use GRUB or fips (in the dosutils directory of you CD) to resize the partition. BACKUP YOUR IMPORTANT INFORMATION and let the mandrake installation to make a linux native patition. Dont forget the swap partition. Linux native partition works better in linux than a DOS partition. Any way if you later wants to eliminate linux just use fips to configure the partition as DOS and run "FDISK /MBR" to remove LILO. When use fips be sure what are you doing... and BACKUP PLEASE.
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Response Number 3
Name: di1bert Date: April 10, 2001 at 05:48:37 Pacific
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Is it just me or is grub used to boot the os and NOT partition/resize harddrives...because i have been using grub instead of lilo
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Response Number 4
Name: markp Date: April 10, 2001 at 07:43:12 Pacific
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I put the 7.2 disk in and went to the partition tool.Seems It Is called Diskdrake :) ..
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