May this is the end of the mysery. I ended up installing everything from scratch and
destroying my back-up hard disk.
Now, am back in business without the resume that took time for me to create. Thanks
for all the recommendations and suggestions.
The following is how I done it:
A. How the second drive data were destroyed:
1. I booted from one of my cd-rom drive and successfully gone into the installation
of Linux.
2. I've chosen GNOME Workstation/Server Automatic Installation. Since this is
automatic and for beginners. (beginners with a beginner's box)
3. It went on straight and finished the installations on the fly.
4. I rebooted and when I mount my second drive which is in FAT the drive was already
in Native Linux Format. (Great!!!) Without a warning or so, my back-ups were gone.
*** NOTE *** Newbies!!! Don't ever try do it that way. Here is my suggested and
time tested method:
1. On your new Hard Disk Drive, boot on that Dirty Operating System. If you don't
have, go ahead and boot on Linux.
2. D.1. From the command prompt of the DoS, run fdisk and partition your drive into
parts.
L.1. From the installation setup, use custom setup.
D.2. Reboot your system and format your drives.
L.2. Make a partition (slice) of your Hard Drive, leaving space for DoS. Make
sure to create the following slices: <swap>, /usr, /boot, and /.
3. That will give you space for both the Dirty Operating System, and the Linux
Operating System.
Now, my problem with this system is on how will I ever run a lot of applications that
are for wenOS. I don't ever have Internet access. Only this free e-mail system will
ever provide.
Anyone out there can lend me their vmware?
T I A
Erwin
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>On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 at 18:56, Erwin L Alquiza wrote:
>> I installed that bad Windows ME on my computer (and later Windows 98).
>> With all the applications needed I decided to have a dual boot my
>> system with RedHat Linux 6.1. First, I defragmented my had disk.
>> Then run fips20.
>
>FIPS will have a problem shrinking your partition during situations where
>certain files are still in the outskirts of an existing partition (the end
>of it that it hopes to be able to free).
>
>I personally recommend you partition your hard drive before installing
>anything (or does Windows ME not allow a situation like that?). This way
>you can also give Linux the theoretically faster part of your hard drive
>(the beginning, usually).
>
>I normally partition, install Winblows, and then install Linux. You could
>install Linux first, but Windows will mess up your MBR so you'll need to
>have a bootdisk ready so you can run lilo to rewrite itself on your MBR.
>Or you could create a small partition as the first partition to become
>your '/boot'. Make lilo write here instead of to the MBR. Windows will
>rewrite your MBR after installation, but just reactivate your first
>partition using fdisk (even under Windows) as the boot partition, and
>maybe run 'fdisk /mbr' after, and restart. You should get lilo again. :)
>
> --> Jijo
>
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