DaveJ45


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Posted: May 12 2006,09:53 |
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QUESTION SOLVED -
Don't!
If you mess up something while fooling around in your HD install, you can use the original boot floppy to bring up DSL, mount the drive your HD-DSL is on, and make changes as needed to fix!
After a long and painful process, I finally managed to get a working HD install on my puny little AST Ascentia 800N. 486DX50/2 20Mb Ram 500Mb HD Floppy Drive
It's set up as follows hda1 - DOS - FAT16 - 64Mb hda2 - LINUX - 352Mb hda5 - Linux Swap - 100Mb
Grub is set up to boot either to DSL or to MS-DOS, and I want to install QEMM & Desqview on the DOS partition (hda1)
hda1 also has the DOS-based PCMCIA utilities which support the ATA CardDrive which I used to install the files needed for the install, since there is no CD-ROM in this puppy. I want to keep those files working in DOS, since the Card Drive is a convenient way to transfer files between laptops.
My question is this:
Now that DSL is installed and running on hda2, can I delete the C:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX and C:\Boot\isolinux files from hda1?
I want the space back for DOS, if possible, but, for obvious reasons, I don't want to have to do a re-install if removing these files will kill a working setup.
Any HD install (not frugal, full HD install) gurus out there have any ideas on whether or not this is OK to do?
DaveJ45
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