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<font face="Times New Roman,Times">Evening to all.</font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman,Times">I have been reading all the post
here with great interest, thank all of you for your thoughtful replies.
It's my turn to stick my neck in the noose. I would like to know
if I can safely use the C: primary</font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman,Times">of my 4 gig Western Digital which
is already loaded with Windoz98 and uses the first half of the hd to also
load Read Hat 5.2. The D: partition was preset as an extended drive, and
FIPS will not allow it to be split.</font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman,Times"> Would it be possible
to migrate all my non-essential programs to the D: extended which would
give me more than enough space, and split the C:.</font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman,Times"> I don't have
a way to store all my extras. Since my income is limited as for buying
another hard drive, if I have to, I will be willing to start from scratch,
except once I make such a commitment, and run into too many "oh by the
ways", I have no one to call to talk me through. I would make the newbie
meetings at Nokia to resolve this, but I live in Valley View,Tx near the
Red River and my ol 86 truck is sorely lacking in amenities like air conditioning
(g) and that's a good 2 hour trip.</font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman,Times">So If I can between my book Mastering
Linux by Arman Danesh and you folks, I'm willing to give it my best shot.
I won't touch a thing though until I have the basics down.</font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman,Times"> my box bio:AMD x86 Family
4 module 15 stepping 4 16 megs 72 pin ram</font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman,Times">
Disk type 47 Western Digital 4.3 gig 2 button Logitech serial mouse</font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman,Times">
Sound Blaster 16 plug and pray CD IDE/ATAPI in series with HD</font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman,Times">
Video ATI TV 4 megs dram Modem Practical Peripherals PM 14400FX</font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman,Times">
Bios does not allow for boot from CD, have made up boot & root</font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman,Times">Have emergency start disk in win98
and my old standby DOS 6.2 (which has all my needed drivers to run dos)</font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman,Times">Thanks for any advise in advance.</font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman,Times">Joe (i hate gates) Martin</font></html>