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Re: pre-installation question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Nielsen)
Wed Nov 6 20:13:10 1996
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 18:10:57 -0700 (MST)
From: Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>
Reply-To: nielsen@primenet.com
To: Charles Rezk <rezk@morse.math.nwu.edu>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199611070047.SAA10946@morse.math.nwu.edu>
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On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Charles Rezk wrote:
>
> I apologize if this question is somewhat off-topic. But it seems like
> someone here will know the answer.
>
> I am about to install RH Linux on my machine. It will be on the same
> drive as a Windows 95 partition. I need to use FIPS to make the
> second partition. Unfortunately, my Windows swap-file is highly
> fragmented and spread out all over the drive. How do I get rid-of or
> defragment the Windows swap-file so that I can run FIPS, and then
> restore the swap-file later?
>
> The fips documentation (and all other Linux docs I've seen) seem to
> assume I must be using Win 3.1. No windows documentation I've seen
> admits the possibility that I might want to get rid of the swap-file.
> Can anyone help?
I'm trying to recall this from memory, since I am in Linux rather than
Win95 at present.
You can turn off the swap file in Win95, somewhere in control panel, I
recall. You will then have to run defrag from "safe mode"
You will also have to turn off any hidden or read only attributes on any
files on the drive you are going to defragment or the file will not be
touched.
Since I use DRVSPACE (so I could devote more of the drive to Linux), I
also had to change the attributes on the compressed file on the h: drive
and defrag h:. I defragged the c: drive also, but that probably isn't
necessary. Be sure to change back any attributes you have messed with
after you have completed the defragmenting. And turn virtual memory back
on, so you can boot Win95 in the normal mode again.
I recall that the new empty partition was marked as DOS by fips, but you
can change that with Linux fdisk. I believe the installation process will
take care of this for you.
Bob
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