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Re: Ontrack?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (UNIXMAN)
Tue Oct 20 19:18:01 1998
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 19:26:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: UNIXMAN <jzygmont@alpha.confederationc.on.ca>
To: John Sterling <sterling@cs.nyu.edu>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <362D04B2.B95C16AC@cs.nyu.edu>
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I tried this once, I now know that the 2 will not work together, I think
it says something about this in online documentation that comes with the
ontrack program. There may be ways around this though, one way would be
using a floppy disk to boot linux.
hope this helps...
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, John Sterling wrote:
> I just bought an IBM 10 GB drive for my Dell XPS Pro 200. This
> generation of Dell does not recognize dirves with more than 8 GB, but
> IBM provides software, Ontrack Disk manager, to get around that.
> However after installing the drive and the software my LILO startup is
> gone!
>
> (Also the disk icon in Win95 claims to be an Iomega drive. The drive
> that had this drive letter before the new one was indeed a Zip.)
>
> Incidentally, I do not plan on using the new drive with Linux, only with
> Win 95/NT.
>
> I was unsuccessful at getting IBM tech support on the phone this
> afternoon to ask if the two are incompatable. Can anyone here give me
> some insight?
>
> Right now I'm trying to figure how to get LILO back without a complete
> reinstall of Redhat. (I have 5.0.) While I have been using Redhat for
> over a year, I am still very inexperienced at recovering from system
> problems. So guidance here will be appreciated as well.
>
> Thanks for any assistance,
>
> John Sterling
> sterling@cs.nyu.edu
>
>
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