Another helpful item is to turn off the windows swap file if it
is on the drive you are repartitioning...especially if you
have a large swap file that windows placed way out there
on the partition.
Bambi
Dacia and AzureRose wrote:
> You have to run partition magic from within DOS. Boot
> wit
On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, John Gist wrote:
>
>> You will be offered the option to repartition, but you should make sure
>> beforehand that you have free space (non-partitioned) before you
>> start. Repartitioning from inside the install will cause your existing
>> partition to be killed.
>
>Thanks for
Thanks Bascule,
I will give that a try.
John
bascule wrote:
> hi john,
>
> if you have bought pm, have you tried making the rescue disks and using
> those to boot your computer and do your partitioning? this will avoid
> doing anything from win95 if that is what causing the problem with pm,
>
hi john,
if you have bought pm, have you tried making the rescue disks and using
those to boot your computer and do your partitioning? this will avoid
doing anything from win95 if that is what causing the problem with pm,
bascule
John Gist wrote:
> Thanks for your reply Paul.
> I should have
Paul wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, John Gist wrote:
>
> >I am getting ready to do my first 7.0 install. I have a 6Ghz drive with
> >Win 95 which I want to keep. If I install by booting from the #1 CD
> >will I be offered the chance to partition for dual boot or will my 95 be
> >wiped?
>
> You
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> To: "Newbie Mandrake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 11:58 AM
> Subject: [newbie] Disk Partitioning on install
>
> > I am getting ready to do my first 7.0 install. I have a 6Ghz drive with
> > Win 95 which
On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, John Gist wrote:
>I am getting ready to do my first 7.0 install. I have a 6Ghz drive with
>Win 95 which I want to keep. If I install by booting from the #1 CD
>will I be offered the chance to partition for dual boot or will my 95 be
>wiped?
You will be offered the option t
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Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 11:58 AM
Subject: [newbie] Disk Partitioning on install
> I am getting ready to do my first 7.0 install. I have a 6Ghz drive with
> Win 95 which I want to keep. If I install by booting from the #1 CD
> will I be offered the chance to
John,
Ensure that have created a separate partition for Linux. MDK7.0 will
create dual boot loader called lilo.
After installing MDK7.0 and the the computer reboots, in DOS, a lilo
prompt will appear.
If you want to boot to your Windows 95 partition, type in: dos
If you want to boot to your Linu
I am getting ready to do my first 7.0 install. I have a 6Ghz drive with
Win 95 which I want to keep. If I install by booting from the #1 CD
will I be offered the chance to partition for dual boot or will my 95 be
wiped?
Thanks
John
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