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Old 06-03-2002, 07:28 PM   #24
MaXimum SMOKE
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It should be on the first RH install disk. Navigate to a directory called, as I remember..... /dosutils In with other goodies is fips. There was always 2 versions 1 is older than the other. You want the newer one. Both have 'readme' files. BTW Before you found out you didn't need one, you asked about a 3.5 boot floppy..... The old rawrite program should be there. That with it's folder of image files is how a person with an older computer, that does not have a bootable cd drive would create a boot floppy. You always wanted to study old Linux history, right?
At any rate, if you do use this and it works, without data loss, if, if, if, .... Then you would run scandisk on the new c drive, It will probably need it. Then remove the extra un needed fat partition, with disk druid, and replace it with linux partitions. Get used to the partition names and numbers in Linux In an ide only computer,

traditionally it's like this:

The first ide cable master ---> /dev/hda - slave ---> /dev/hdb
The second ide cable master ---> /dev/hdc - slave ---> /dev/hdd

The partition number follows, so in a windows only 1 hard drive, 1 large partiton, with first ide master drive utilized, computer, the partition typicaly, would probably be
/hda1

** Test question if your cdrom is the first device, on the second ide cable which linux device is it?
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