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Re: reliability of fips? [was Re: Linux/Win95]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Nielsen)
Mon Nov 18 13:00:45 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 10:59:27 -0700 (MST)
From: Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>
Reply-To: nielsen@primenet.com
To: drink <drink@cloud9.net>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
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On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, drink wrote:
> > If Win95 currently infests your entire disk, then use Partition Magic ($) or
> > fips (free) to shrink your Win95 partition.
>
> How reliable is fips? I use Linux on a seperate HD, but a friend of
> mine would like to install to his current Win95 drive without backing
> up, repartitioning, etc, etc. Does anyone have any praise for fips, or
> more importantly any horror stories? Any real reason to go out and buy
> partition magic if you've got fips? I've never used either. Thanks.
> Craig
I've used it several times with no problems. I doubt that Partition Magic
would be any safer, although it might be easier to configure (and does a
few things which fips doesn't).
The tricky part is to get EVERYTHING compressed before running fips. The
documentation is pretty explicits. (Besides, destroying a Win95 partition
isn't necessarily a bad thing.)
Bob
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