This is a post for someone who knows a lot about hardware... I need to create a new partition on my 2.0 GB hard drive to install Linux into. I plan to use FIPS, as I cannot afford to make a full backup of my data. I know _how_ to repartition the drive, but I'm not sure I should, due to a rather confusing sitiuation. The computer came to me with Windows95 on it, and thus the hard drive is just one large, win95 partition. A few weeks ago, I did something that seemed like a very good idea at the time, but perhaps I shouldn't have. Frustrated with condescending and slow Windoze, I put MS-DOS 6.0 on the computer (I copied the entire /DOS directory from my notebook to my desktop), and I've been booting to it with an MS-DOS created boot floppy. But now the question is: when I go to run FIPS, which OS do I run it from? I would like to run it from DOS, but will it have a negative impact on Win95 if I do? The partition to be created will be 200M in size. I've had the computer for only a couple of months, and thus there are still areas of the hard disk that have not been written to. I tried using UMSDOS earlier, and that failed (Linux installed okay, but I could not boot it whatsoever). Does anyone out there know what to do? Jeeves, A Butler for Hire Creator/IMP/Builder of CalaisMUD (under development)
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