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Re: Can Win98 and RHL5.1 Peacefully coexist??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Statux)
Thu Oct 22 22:27:43 1998
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From: "Statux" <statux@bigfoot.com>
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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 22:26:19 -0400
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Why would anyone bother leaving DOS with 98 around with Linux?
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-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Wilkinson <dwilkins@kent.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thursday, October 22, 1998 10:03 PM
Subject: Can Win98 and RHL5.1 Peacefully coexist??
>
>Hi,
> I recently got a new personal computer for home and I was proud
>when I finally got windows and red hat linux both installed on it with a
>dual boot(I had to rebuild the kernel from scratch and you know what a
>chore that can be the first time round). Anyway, everything was working
>all hunky dory until the other day when I rebooted the computer into
>windows and ran an application. When I was done and I went back into my
>linux partition, I got a message saying that my disk had some errors in
>it(I didn't even bother running fsck manually because I know it wouldn't
>get me anywhere). So, I copied my bzImage onto a floppy so that I can use
>it again when I reinstall RHL5.1 and I am in a position to reinstall
>linux, but I need to know why this error occurred so that I am not just
>reinstalling in vain. One possibility is that LBA in windows is giving me
>grief. I have an extended dos partition of 5 gigs with 2 logical
>partitions within it of 2 gigs each. I have Large Block Addressing shut
>off on my bios, but I kinda extrapolated that with it shut off I only
>could make a partition of only 2 gigs each. Needless to say that LBA is
>not compatable with other OS's. Could this be the problem??
>
>
>Here's my partition table:
>
>Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks ID System
>/dev/sda1 * 50 50 511 473088 b Win95 fat32
>/dev/sda2 512 512 643 135168 82 Linux Swap
>/dev/sda3 * 750 750 3071 2377728 83 Linux native
>/dev/sda4 3072 3172 8191 5140480 5 Extended
>/dev/sda5 4096 4196 6143 1994752 b Win95 fat32
>/dev/sda6 6144 6200 8191 2039805 b Win95 fat32
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