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From: | jls11 AT po DOT CWRU DOT Edu (John L. Spetz) |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: DJGPP: the future is... FreeDos? DJ-DOS? Linux? |
Date: | 2 May 1999 00:54:11 GMT |
Organization: | Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) |
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In a previous article, ajschrotenboer AT lycosmail DOT com (Adam Schrotenboer) says: > > >Marvin G Wise Jr wrote: > >> > There is only one danger: You must read the instructions for >> > partitioning VERY CAREFULLY. You can lose everything you have >> > if you don't do what it says. I didn't lose a byte. FIPS is good. >> > > >FIPS doesn't work with FAT32X (Win98), or at least that's what a friend of mine >told me. > When I went to install OpenLinux 1.3 the manual said that FIPS would not work for Fat32, that I should get Partition Magic or reformat and repartition. This turned out not to be necessary. I downloaded a newer version of FIPS from the net and it worked fine on a 13.6 gig drive with Windoze 98/Fat32 preinstalled.
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