[ale] HELP! Installing Linux over Windows

[Howard Holden]

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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