From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 15847 invoked from network); 29 Jun 1998 15:21:23 -0000 Received: from ns1.seidata.com (208.10.211.2) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 Jun 1998 15:21:23 -0000 Received: from unregistered (ma-dial37.seidata.com [205.243.228.41]) by ns1.seidata.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA02941; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 11:23:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980629102702.00871510@seidata.com> X-Sender: marriage@seidata.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 10:27:02 -0500 To: blinux-list@redhat.com, blinux-list@redhat.com From: Ron Marriage Subject: Re: questions about linux..again In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980629035140.0090e530@pop.mindspring.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" List-Id: I set my partitions up using "System Commander Deluxe." The software was easy to use, but required sighted assistance to make use of it. It was easy to do, I lost no Win95 data, and it has a special set of instructions for installing Lynix. I installed Red Hat 5 with a LILO boot for Lynix and it works fine. Ron At 03:51 AM 6/29/98 -0400, Bryan Smart wrote: >Mat, > >At 02:03 AM 6/29/98 -0400, you wrote: >>installing linux. I was told that it wouldnt be a smart idea to format my >>harddrive so i could get win95 totally off and then put a dos vertion on >>my laptop. Something about i would lose all the cdrom and soundcard >>drivers. > >Your laptop probably came with all of the drivers for your CDROM, >soundcard, video card, and other periferals already installed. If you must >re-install Windows '95, you will need to be sure that you (1) have all of >the drivers on floppies (or some other place safe) and (2) that you (or >someone else) will be able to install them. If you're not comfortable with >doing this in '95, then formatting your drive may not be a good idea. > >There is a program called Partition Magic from Power Quest that will allow >you to repartition your drive with out loosing any data. The program comes >with a text mode utility that will run in DOS. Ron Marriage E-Mail: mailto:marriage@seidata.com Homepage; http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/ Blind Related Links: http://welcome.to/blindlinks