Re: [TCLUG:20217] Installfest - anyone bringing Partition Magic?

[Gabe Turner (officer) <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>]

You won't need partition magic unless you want to join the two partitions.
i suggest you forget about partition magic and just make the current linux
partition a new win98 partition.  Inlinux, fire up fdisk.  Change the
partition type of the linux partition to fat32.  Then when you boot up
win98, the drive will appear in your "My Computer" windows and all you have
to do is right click on it and choose "Format" to make a fat32 file system
on it.  Then, get to a command prompt and type "fdisk /mbr" to get rid of
lilo.  There you have it, stand-alone win98 box.

Gabe

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:19:28AM -0700, Vanessa Van Alstine wrote:
> I was at the last Installfest, and after a grueling
> battle, we added a partition on my Win 98 box and got
> RedHat installed. 
> 
> Well ... now I've got a separate box that's just for
> linux. So I'm bringing that this time. And (she says
> while ducking) could anyone bring Partition Magic or
> the like and help me remove the linux partition from
> the Win 98 box? It's not that I'm not grateful, but I
> could use the HD space and I'd rather keep things
> clean.
> 
> I could survive reformatting everything if I have to,
> but I'd really prefer to do this without messing up
> the Win 98 partition. The hardware drivers were a
> complete bear to get working right, and it takes about
> 2 days to reinstall everything.
> 
> Ben - are you coming? I still need to return your
> tiedown strap.
> 
> Thanks,
> Vanessa
> vvanalst@yahoo.com
> 
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