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- From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
- Subject: Re: Installing Linux w/o destroying existing partitions
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <1992Aug14.193838.16110@nas.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:14:39 GMT
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- In <1992Aug14.193838.16110@nas.nasa.gov> chiu@wk211.nas.nasa.gov (Ing-Tsau Chiu) writes:
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- >Wonder if there's any way to install Linux w/o destroying existing
- >partitions. (Sorry if this is an faq.)
- >--
- >--
- >Ing-Tsau Chiu chiu@nas.nasa.gov
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- Sure on floppy disks, silly! :-)
-
- There is some explanation of this in 'install.notes' written by
- I Reid. Actually it's an appendix towards the end written by
- Drew Eckhardt.
-
- I personally wouldn't recommend it, even though I think I understand
- what he's doing.
-
- Basically it seems to me that it's much more work than it is worth.
- I did a complete backup of my harddisk of about 60 Megs of data to
- floppy disks(720K no less! as I have hundreds of these), using
- CP Backup 6.0. It takes about 1/2 hour to backup, another 1/2 to
- reinstall.
- If you've got more than 100 Megs, definately buy a cheap tape
- backup for around $200.
-
- Basically, it just doesn't seem worth the possible frustration, and
- you're going to have to backup the partition anyway.
-
- Any comments?
-
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- Steve Sheldon sheldon@iastate.edu
- Iowa Cooperative Soil Survey Resource Unit
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