On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 16:22:06 -0600, Jeremy wrote:
>If that works for you, you got it easy.
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Sun, 19 Mar 2000 12:54:40
Well Jeremy, it wasn't that easy <grin>, but it is working really
fine..
I did not intend to put any money into this old P-166..it has
the antique BIOS dated DEC 1995...I was warned off of the overlay
programs by good people on the Packard Bell newsgroup.. I did not want
to put a bullet in the brain of this old computer with a BIOS flash
gone bad....
When I installed the 13gig WD it showed as a 2Gig. I just
installed W95a with the PB recovery floppy that fdisk two gig fat
16...as far as the bios was concerned that was a full load...
Then I installed MDK Helios 6.1 using the expert mode which
lets you partition manually with Linux Fdisk.....no disc dude or any
of that automatic stuff...I just put hda2 as an extended partition all
the way to the end of the 13 Gigs and started the logicals with boot
first and sectioned them on out, made my swap and native and loaded
the mandrake.....
I did scotch my partition table with a dumb move I will not
expound upon <g>..as I was trying to partition Linux .and I was locked
out of a brand new unbootable disc, with a 95a system that I had just
put many hours into....fortunately I had been looking around with FIPS
2.0 prior to that and had made a backup file on the FIPS floppy...I
did not use it for any thing else...so I ran the FIPS recovery file
and it reconstituted my W95 table and luckily nothing was
harmed....the second attempt at loading the mandrake went like a
charm...and I have unbelievable room..<smile>.
Olly P
Biloxi Mississippi.
