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- From: iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
- Subject: SLS Installation
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.115823.3929@mic.ucla.edu>
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- Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management
- Date: 27 Jan 93 11:58:23 PST
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- 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:
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- [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.
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- 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?
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- /ivo
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