the long anticipated and announced new hard drive has arrived and I am scared!
I just realized that I will have to install M$ on it because if I do not it
will not recognize it on the other drive which will be set to slave. This
means that I have to partition the disk with a mirosoft filesystem on it and
I was wondering if I was thinking correctly? (if only the flash drive worked
on Linux then I could junk M$)
When is the next installfest? Maybe I should wait for one.
Ohhhhh GOD! I am being overwhelmed.
Okay, so I set the new drive to slave......... no that won't work.
So I disconnect the old drive and install the new one. Then I boot the
computer with M$ DOS 6.0 and run fdisk on the unformated drive. I figure
that I can partition it into ten equal drives. Is four gigs big enough for
Windows 98 SE? Is it big enough for Linux? Do I need to install DOS onto the
drive to prepare it for Windows? I sure hope my Windows disk will work! It
didn't work for a friend who had to repair his installation.
I guess that it wasn't so overwhelming after all.
But after I put Linux onto my system I was told to open midnight commander and
to use it to copy the files from ~/ to then new home directory. Couldn't I
just type in 'cp /mnt/hda/....../<old home> ~'; shouldn't that work?
Maybe I should just bring my box to a PLUG meeting!
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