[ale] HELP! Installing Linux over Windows

[James P. Kinney III]

I think that is correct is the installation style chosen was "server" or
"workstation". As I never care about salvaging a winders partition
anyway (I'm usually blowing an existing partition for a client who is
disgusted with what they have been running) I haven't remembered all of
the details of the choices on the install type and how it reflects with
the partitioning scheme.

On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 15:42, Howard Holden wrote:
> If I remember correctly, during the RH install thechoice was made tpo let RH automatically partition. Would this not have wiped out the Windows partition -- the whole 
> windows installation?
> 
> 8/8/2003 8:26:07 AM, "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> 
> >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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