Re: One more convinced Linux newbie.
On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Robert Cloud wrote:
> Yada, yada, yada ... therefore I think Linux is
> great: however ...
>
> 1) My system has a 2.5 hard disk (with all my goodies installed).
>
> 2) I've used FIPS to partition (successfully) said HD.
>
> 3) I've downloaded your distribution and stat to "install."
>
> 4)CFDSIK starts. I get throught the keyboard setup (no problem).
>
> 5) I'm told that I don't have a swap partition, and then
> agree to "partition."
>
> 6) O.K., hda1 is my main partition (with all my goodies)2GB
> hda2 is what I created with FIPs 400MB
> and then I have this "pri/log" thing with about 3.95mb
>
> 7)The hda2 partition has "win fat32". I go to 'TYPE" to
> change to "83" to make it a Linux partiton.
>
> Bottom line ... I'm stuck here! No Linux partition, no Linux
> swap partition ... just a dumb ol' WIN fat 32 partition.
>
> Please help. I trying to convince my company to really "look at"
> Linux. But I can't even get it onto my computer
It's been a while, but I believe you need to delete the fat32 partition,
then create a new partition of type 83 out of the newly freed space.
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