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- From: dejesus@pluto.nwc.navy.mil (Francisco X DeJesus)
- Subject: Re: SLS Installation
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- Organization: Science Applications International Corp.
- References: <1993Jan27.115823.3929@mic.ucla.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:55:45 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.115823.3929@mic.ucla.edu> iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) writes:
- >
- >I am a bit confused about the SLS (linux) installation. I am getting a
- >laptop, already formatted for DOS, and I want to make linux my second
- >partition. I would have thought I should:
- >
- > [1] backup the DOS volume
- > [2] repartition the hard disk using DOS's fdisk utility for
- > 2 volumes. I can then handle partition 1 with standard
- > DOS tools.
- > [3] build a Linus file-system, probably booting from SLS disk
- > a1 and a2, and using mkfs.
- >
- >Instead, SLS asks me to use its own fdisk utility. I am concerned
- >whether this is identical to using the DOS fdisk utility. Is it?
-
- The DOS documentation says to use the DOS-Fdisk to create/manipulate
- DOS partitions. For other OS's, it tells you to use whatever is appropriate
- to that OS. In the case of Linux, it happens to be Linux's "fdisk".
-
- I suppose you will have to use DOS fdisk to give x% of your disk to DOS
- then go into Linux and use it to give the remainder to Linux.
- --
- Francisco X DeJesus ----- S A I C ----- dejesus@chinalake.navy.mil
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