[ale] HELP! Installing Linux over Windows

[Geoffrey]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> At this point, I don't fdisk is a safe command.

fdisk -l /dev/hda is only going to list the partition makeup, I'd say 
that's pretty safe for right now.  df is still only going to show the 
mounted file systems, 'cat /etc/fstab' would possibly present more info 
than df.

> 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.

Valid point, although I've not done RH in a while.  Still, I think that 
the 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' is the ultimate solution in locating the missing 
XP, if in fact it still exists...

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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

The latest, most widespread virus?  Microsoft end user agreement.
Think about it...

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