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- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Repartitioning and using DOS again
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.084739.12412@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 08:47:39 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.024707.5027@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 13
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- cljackso@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Chris Jackson) writes:
- > I'm having a problem with partitioning for Linux. First, after I
- >delete my existing partitn and create three new ones (DOS, Linux, and
- >Linux swap), I loose all my programs which isn't that bad. Then when I
- >try installing DOS, and even though the DOS partition is flaged as boot,
- >DOS (I'm using 5.0) can't figure out which partition to install on (C: ).
- >I like Linux but I need DOS till I get it running.
-
- How did you create the partitions? You probably need to create the DOS
- partition using DOS' fdisk.
-
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- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
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