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Re: Linux/Win95
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zero ToL)
Sun Nov 17 17:50:02 1996
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 16:47:18 -0600 (CST)
From: Zero ToL <zerotol@bga.com>
To: "Subhas C. Roy" <subhas@pobox.com>
cc: Stuart Luppescu <s-luppescu@uchicago.edu>, redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199611172113.QAA24919@zippy.concentric.net>
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So you had Win95, then used partition magic, then installed linux?, Does
this work with RH linux 4.0?
So where do you get this "Partition magic 2.0"?
On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Subhas C. Roy wrote:
> > >I have Linux and Win95 on the same 1.6GB WD EIDE hard drive (500MB for
> > >Win95 and rest for Linux :) and they are happily coexisting just fine
> > >thanks to LILO. I did fresh installation of RH 3.0.3 on it several
> > >times trying various partitioning schemes (sometime recklessly). No
> > >bad things happened. I use Partition Magic to steal disk space for
> >
> > Hey, that's a good trick! How did you do it? The mini-FAQ warns against
> > it and it was confirmed by my own experience. What I did was install
> > Win95 in a partition in which dos had been installed (with Linux on
> > the rest of the disk). I believe Win95 wrote over the boot sector
> > and prevented me from getting to my Linux partition at all. I don't
> > know what would happen if you installed Win95 first and then installed
> > Linux in the other partition.
>
> My PC came with Win95 pre-installed. I used Partition Magic 2.0 to get
> diskspace for Linux from Win95 partition. The magic of Partition Magic
> is that it allows you to resize DOS/Win95 partitions
> non-destructively. No re-installation of Win95 is needed. It worked
> for me safely and painlessly.
>
> --
> Subhas Roy subhas@pobox.com
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