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29988	2002-01-06 03:42:00	I recently installed redhat linux 7.1. According to the manual I should have been able to do a partitionless install into windows, but after rebooting windows was not to be found. My hardrive seemed to be empty of windows. After fdisking my hardrive and reinstalling windows I am now back on track. I had been quite taken with Geoff Palmers article on Linux and was looking forward to trying linux but after my first and only encounter Im now not so sure. Where did I go wrong. Grant Nowland-Walker	Guest (0)
29989	2002-01-06 03:55:00	Well, there is rather a lot of reading to do. What you need to do is have a disk containing Windows, and an area (bigger than 500MB for RH7.1) unallocated. Have a look at the DOSUTILS (I think) directory of the install disk. There is a programme in there called FIPS.EXE to split the disk. (you need to have windows defragged all down at the bottom end of the disk). There's a pretty good document file about it., Then you should be OK. It should have warned you that it was about to delete, expunge, and otherwise make holes in the Windows. Perhaps you just hit return and walked away for a cup of coffee ... Keep us informed.	Guest (0)
29990	2002-01-06 04:01:00	I had always assumed that when istalling linux with a windows operating system that you needed to partiton the drive for the Linus and windows swap files	Guest (0)
29991	2002-01-06 04:01:00	I had always assumed that when istalling linux with a windows operating system that you needed to partiton the drive for the Linus and windows swap files	Guest (0)
29992	2002-01-06 04:01:00	I had always assumed that when istalling linux with a windows operating system that you needed to partiton the drive for the Linux and windows swap files	Guest (0)
29993	2002-01-06 04:02:00	I had always assumed that when istalling linux with a windows operating system that you needed to partiton the drive for the Linux and windows swap files	Guest (0)
29994	2002-01-06 10:46:00	I had a play around with Linux some few months back. As i wanted to setup a dual boot Windows 2000 - Linux system. I used Partition Magic to create both a seperate Linux Partition, and also Linux swap partition before installation. A website that i found particularly informative was www.littlewhitedog.com The dual boot setup he used utilised Mandrake, but i was able to get Redhat to work in the same way. To save time once the relevant partitions are created, set your BIOS to boot from CD Rom, insert the Linux CD, and install into the newly created Linux partitions - The most important thing here is to create the Linux CD Floppy Boot Disks- you will need this. Post installation, follow the instructions as per little white dog Good luck	Guest (0)
29995	2002-01-06 10:47:00	I had a play around with Linux some few months back. As i wanted to setup a dual boot Windows 2000 - Linux system. I used Partition Magic to create both a seperate Linux Partition, and also Linux swap partition before installation. A website that i found particularly informative was www.littlewhitedog.com The dual boot setup he used utilised Mandrake, but i was able to get Redhat to work in the same way. To save time once the relevant partitions are created, set your BIOS to boot from CD Rom, insert the Linux CD, and install into the newly created Linux partitions - The most important thing here is to create the Linux CD Floppy Boot Disks- you will need this. Post installation, follow the instructions as per little white dog Good luck	Guest (0)
29996	2002-01-06 13:21:00	I have Win95, Win2000 and Red Hat 7.1 all booting from the hard drive. With Red Hat you can install with in a Windows partition but it will be slow, you are better off creating a partition for it. You must have made the wrong choice for installing it and it must have done an automatic partition. Be carefull next time as you can always backtrack until the instalation starts for real.	Guest (0)
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