[ale] More on the Lpatop

[James P. Kinney III]

Most restore CDs will start by resetting the hard drive to the original
format. That will, of course, blow away your Linux installation.

Use the linux tools to split the hard drive and add the linux
distribution to the new, blank partition. Fips works great. gnupartd
(gpartd) also works. 

On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 12:03, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
> I'm getting ready to install it.  My concern in on the Windows side.  I
> want to split this HDD in half and reinstall all Windows stuff from the
> restore CD.  but I do not want it to overwrite my Linux partition.  Does
> anyone here have experience with this issue?
> 
> thanks,
> Chris
> On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 21:33, MCover wrote:
> > Hi Chris, I have installed RH 7.3 on HP omnibook 6000 and 500, dual boot with win XP and Grub. I have not have any problems so far, but I am working on get a peer-to-peer wireless connection using the PCMCIA slot.
> > Hey, let me know how your install goes
> > 
> > M.
> > 
> > Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >Today on Tax day I bought a HP Pavilion ZE1250 Laptop.  Anyone have
> > >pointers here on getting Linux to run on it.  I'll probably do a test
> > >install tonight anyway
> > >
> > >
> > >
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