[ale] HELP! Installing Linux over Windows

[James P. Kinney III]

At this point, I don't fdisk is a safe command. Right now, there is a
working RedHat and a missing XP. (Sounds good to me!) Depending on which
installation method was used (RedHat 8 and 9 both do this on server
install), the entire drive gets wiped. Even with ntfs for winders,
RedHat can point a grub starter to it and let it boot. If grub won't
point to it (assuming that it was not delesected in the install process)
then it probably isn't there.

On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 08:22, Geoffrey wrote:
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > Then there is no longer a winXP partition.
> 
> I'm not entirely sure that's the case just yet.
> 
> > 
> > Let redhat boot up and open a terminal window. run "df" to see the
> > partition layout. 
> 
> You mean 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' correct?  df will only show mounted file 
> systems, fdisk will show all the existing filesystems, mounted or not.
> 
> 
> > If you selected the "remove ALL partitions on this system" and then
> > selected "Yes" when asked to verify, then RedHat politely tossed XP
> > where it belongs (the bit bucket). You don't need it so don't bother
> > trying to reload it. :)
> 
> I would agree on both counts here...
> 
> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
> 
> The latest, most widespread virus?  Microsoft end user agreement.
> Think about it...
> 
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