[UCLA-LUG] adding (gulp!)..Windows

[Clara Wu]

Yes, if you use windoze 98 fdisk, since it cannot recognize
the ext2 filesystem, it cannot delete linux partition. (you can try :)
if you like to avoid to partiton a whole HD as only one partition, 
when windoze fdisk asks, say "NO"

clara

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Tyson Rogers wrote:

> Are you sure that this procedure will leave the Linux partitions intact? In my
> experience the Windows installation routine does not request any partition
> information and I think that by default it repartitions the whole hard drive
> before installation occurs. Maybe I'm wrong and that only applies to the case
> when the first partition is unformatted instead of pre-formatted as Fat16 or
> Fat32. In any case, this discussion assumes that the partition that was
> prepared for Windows installation is /dev/hda1.
> 
> Tyson.
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> Tyson Rogers
> Dept. of Biostatistics, UCLA
> tysonr@ucla.edu
>