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>2. Installation Options</A
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>Linux and Windows 95™ can get along quite well
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on the same hard disk. You can also install Linux onto a separate hard disk
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on the same machine. If you have the money to spare to get a second hard
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disk, go ahead and do that. Although it is safe and reliable to run Windows
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95™ and Linux on the same hard disk, it is safer to have a second disk. Since I am a poor student (and so are most of the people I know), we are stuck with one large disk.</P
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>Your hard disk may look like this:</P
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> +---------------------------------
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C: | 800M.... 4.2 Gig?
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+---------------------------------</PRE
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>Windows 95™, MS-Office™, Qmodem Pro™, and whatever DOS/Windows software you have only take up around 800M + Swap (this is a big, sarcastic assumption)! You probably do not want to lose all the software you've spent a lot of time configuring and installing, so you don't want to delete this partition and start all over again.</P
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>2.1. I Have This Partition I Want to Spare!</A
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>Don't lose hope. There is a program called <SPAN
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CLASS="APPLICATION"
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>FIPS</SPAN
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>, which can re-partition
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your hard disk without destroying data. HOWEVER, make sure before you use
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it, that you defrag your hard disk (with the optimum defrag method). Use the
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<SPAN
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>defrag </SPAN
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>that came with Windows 95™, and use it in the GUI--otherwise you will
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loose your long file names. After you have run <SPAN
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>defrag</SPAN
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>, run <SPAN
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>FIPS</SPAN
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> and make
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your disk look something like the following:</P
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C: | This is your FAT/VFAT/Win95 partition
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800M |
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??? | This is empty space.
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+----------------------------------</PRE
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><SPAN
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>FIPS</SPAN
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> can be found at your favorite Linux FTP sites (<A
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>http://sunsite.unc.edu,</A
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>http://tsx-11.mit.edu</A
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>,<A
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HREF="ftp://ftp.redhat.com"
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TARGET="_top"
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> ftp.redhat.com</A
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>) usually in the <TT
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>/pub/utils/msdos</TT
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> directory.
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If you have a CD for Linux, there is usually a <TT
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>\utils\msdos</TT
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> or <TT
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>\utils</TT
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directory that has <SPAN
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>FIPS</SPAN
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> in it as well.</P
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>2.2. What Is This 528M 1024th Cylinder Stuff?</A
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>What exactly is the 1024th cylinder? Simply put, it is where IDE ends and EIDE
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begins--that's the 528M "mark" on your hard disk. Some
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machines used to have problems reading hard disks larger than 528M. Sometimes,
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those machines wouldn't let you boot another OS from a partition that started
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after the 1024th cylinder. Most machines no longer have this limitation.
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(This used to be a BIG deal.)</P
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