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To: S.C. Barnard who wrote (220)	4/5/1999 11:08:00 AM
From: E. Charters	of 484

It is highly recommended that you obtain an aftermarket manual that walks through installation. It is evident that it has been done wrong. Although Linux Secrets is geared towards Slackware and getting out of date slightly it would cure a LOT of your problems. You install Win 95 first in an MSDOS made partition. All partitions must be removed and with MSDOS fdisk you make one smaller partion as your win 95 partition. Then you make a Linux partition(s) with Linux fdisk, which is a totally different animal. Always make a Linux boot disk with Lilo on it AND have a win95 bootdisk too. The way I do it is I put OS2 boot manager above the DOS partion and below the Linux partion. I put Lilo on the Linux partition instead of in the MBR. Then I boot boot manager (since it is the active partition) and it selects Lilo which can then boot win 95 OR Linux. If you reinstall Win 95 it will deactivate OS2 Boot Manager or Lilo when its in the in the MBR. This can be cured by reinstalling Lilo from the Linux boot floppy. Putting it in the MBR has been known to cause problems like unbootable computers. And if the MBR screws up with Lilo installed it can only be fixed by Linux from the bootdisk. There are other ways to do it. You can use fips to repartition or you can use Partition Magic to repartition. Both work. Or you can reinstall by removing all and restoring the win 95 partition from a tape or disk. Linux is the kind of thing that requires you to read the f------ manual carefully before you attempt to screw up your system. so you think those printed words are only for dummies? Guess what! That's right. The only thing you had wrong was who the dummy was. You should have three Linux partitions. They should be named hda2, 3 and 4. hdb then would be your cdrom which will be mapped in Red Hat to /dev/cdrom. The three partitions are the root, home and swap partitions. Allocate about 100 megs to swap, 200 to whatever to home and 300 or so to root. Home is your personal files and programs. root is what the system uses. Since your drive ended up being named hdc I believe a mistake may have been made in Linux fdisk in partitioning. That much is indicated from the fact that your partitions are non standard. You may have a bunch of other disks like a DVD and a syquest or zip drive which you did not mention however. I guess you did not mount your win 95 drive from Linux or fstab should have seen it. You can mount those drives under a directory as Linux will read the DOS files. EC<:-}

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