[NTLUG:Discuss] Newbie needs help

[Joe]

Evening to all.
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
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.
    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:.
    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.
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.
 my box bio:AMD x86 Family 4 module 15 stepping 4  16 megs 72 pin ram
                   Disk type 47 Western Digital 4.3 gig  2 button
Logitech serial mouse
                    Sound Blaster 16 plug and pray  CD IDE/ATAPI in
series with HD
                    Video ATI TV 4 megs dram Modem Practical Peripherals
PM 14400FX
                    Bios does not allow for boot from CD, have made up
boot & root
Have emergency start disk in win98 and my old standby DOS 6.2 (which has
all my needed drivers to run dos)
Thanks for any advise in advance.
Joe (i hate gates) Martin
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