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Posted: Mar. 19 2005,14:07

I'm sure I'll be doing this more than once. :P

My older PII cannot boot from CD, so I use a boot floppy to access C: knoppix/knoppix.

What I want to know is if I am likely to run into any problems installing dsl from a Windows partition to a Linux partition?

Also, since I've never done this before unless you count Mandrake which I don't, what will be involved in partitioning prior to HD install? Is my understanding flawed in this sequence of events:

1.) Either shrink Win95 partition with Partition Magic 3.0 or reformat with FDISK and create two partitions.

2.) Recreate Win95 partition with C: knoppix>knoppix if necessary; use CFDISK from C:knoppix>knoppix to change filesystem in empty partition to Linux.

3.) Click on "install to hard disk" in menu being very careful to cd to empty partition.

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cbagger01

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Posted: Mar. 19 2005,19:55

It should work fine as long as you don't delete the Windows partition where your DSL files are stored.

Partition magic should work fine to reduce your windows partition size.

Then use "sudo cfdisk" to create your new linux partitions. You should create one for the install and one for the swap file.

So if for example your windows partition is stored at /dev/hda1 , and your linux partition is /dev/hda2

then run the hard disk install script and FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS EXACTLY and you will be fine.

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Posted: Mar. 20 2005,16:01

Thanks bunches; I couldn't see any reason why it wouldn't work if I was careful, but I may be doing it on somebody else's machine before my own and they're trusting me with something they've been saving up to buy for a long time, no matter how much of a piece of sh*t you and I think it is.

Apologies for my whiny posts; sometimes I think my Mandrake machine isn't the only entity around here with dependancy issues.

<cringe>

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