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hard disk formatting before installing linux
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Name: mauro
Date: June 21, 2000 at 17:10:58 Pacific
Subject: hard disk formatting before installing linux
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Comment: Hello,
I have a laptop pentium 166, 48 Mb RAM, 2 gigs Hard disk running windows 95. I would like to format the hard disk and then installing linux. Do I have to follow the usual procedure as when reinstalling windows operating system or is there something else I should know?
Any suggestion is very welcome.
Thanks
Mauro
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Response Number 1
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Name: Heather Moore
Date: June 21, 2000 at 17:39:18 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Repartion your disk into two partions, then format the first partition only, install windows to the first, run fdisk again and delete the second partion, LINUX will repartition and format it for U
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Response Number 3
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Name: tacitus
Date: June 21, 2000 at 23:49:39 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)you don't need to touch the present system except to defrag and partition using a partition program that saves the data. you then format the linux partitions, leaving the win95 one untouched. only boot sector needs to change. however, i agree with yabuddy, you'd be limited in what you could install.
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