<DIV>Thanks for your reply.</DIV>
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<DIV>A couple of things</DIV>
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<DIV>1) I realised that I'd typed Windows 95 SE, when I should have typed Windows 98 SE - can I assume that this does make any difference to what you said?</DIV>
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<DIV>2) You mentioned the difference between 'reformatting' and 'resizing partitions'. I assume that I only have one partition on my harddrive, therefore am I right in thinking that that I'm unable to 'resize partitions' and would need to reformat the whole drive if I'm to run both Linux and Windows off the same HD?</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks again</DIV>
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<DIV>Ron</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Robert Postill <robert@grinning-cat.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 16:31, Ron Wilton wrote:<BR>> <BR>> I have a computer with Windows 95 Second edition, but am also wanting<BR>> to install Linux.<BR>Don't worry its quite common. All the major distributions will allow<BR>you to do that. <BR>> Is there a distribution that can reformat the hard-drive without<BR>> losing the existing Windows setup? <BR>A number of distributions (distros) allow you to resize partitions. <BR>Reformatting is trashing the entire thing, which I presume you don't<BR>want to do. If you pick up a Linux magazine (WH Smith sell a few) then<BR>you'll likely find a distro on the cover (I assume you have a CD-ROM<BR>drive). I use SuSE, others on the list use Mandrake or Fedora. All<BR>three should give you the opportunity to resize your partition. They're<BR>pretty similar, but pick Mandrake or SuSE if you want paid (as in<BR>telephone)
support.<BR>> until I have successfully got everything working under Linux.<BR>Now you're either in a good deal of luck (if you can make tonight's<BR>meeting in Beeston) or if you can't make it you're about to get familiar<BR>with Google. Dependant on what you've got (cheap generally equals<BR>troublesome) most devices have some info on Google.<BR><BR>Hope that helps.<BR>Robert.<BR>-- <BR>Robert Postill<BR>robert@grinning-cat.com<BR>Tel:07968 801326<BR><BR><BR>> ATTACHMENT part 1.2 application/pgp-signature name=signature.asc<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Nottingham mailing list<BR>Nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk<BR>http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nottingham<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><p>
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