On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 01:22:45PM +0100, Ted Wager wrote:
->
-> Hi..
-> Sorry abt the title...
-> I have just inherited a Dell computer with a 4 gig h/drive.....it has been
-> partitioned into 2 2gig's....I have the win95 cdrom's but no driver disks for
-> the cdrom drive..I wanrt to remove the win95 system and put the whole lot to
-> linux...I am running Mandrake on the second partition..I have made a sys disk
-> for the win partition too....If I use the sysdisk to reformat the first drive
-> it will of course delete the cdrom driver....Will the linux boot.img pickup the
-> cdrom on a bare drive or doe it read the dos sys files...I have never used w95
-> the only GUI I have used is GEM on Dr Dos so the Windows system is a closed
-> book to me
Don't worry about the W95 partition, Linux should handle all your hardware
with its own drivers.
If you have data on the W95 partition, you might want to continue to use
your system as it, and use Linux' vfat drivers to access data in the W95
partition.
On the other tentacle, if you want to abandon the W95 partition entirely,
you can back up your Mandrake partition, wipe the whole kazoo, re-install,
and restore everyting to the new installation. This will restore your
settings and data. If you restore everything, make sure you run lilo
before you reboot, as you will have restored your boot kernel and boot
hdimage as well.
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