You can use fdisk in a DOS window to find out the physical partitions
associated with your Windows drive letters. Even better, you can use it to
delete the partitions that you want available for Linux. Then when using
Linux's fdisk, set up your Linux partitions only in the unused portion of
the disk.
And BTW, Linux names are hda1, hda2, etc, not HDA1, HDA1, etc. -- in Linux,
as in all Unix and Unix-like OSs, case counts.
At 10:36 PM 5/2/99 -0700, gene hitz wrote [abridged]:
>I finally purchased the Red Hat 5.2 and started to install it. However,
when attempting to set up
>the partitions, it gives the warning that formatting the partition will
destroy everything
>presently on it. How can I be
>sure it won't setup Linux partitions over my present partitions that now
contain other programs?
>The documentation does not clear this up.
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