yes, standalone win box BUT NOT ONE PARTITION. ;) i have pmagic but that's illegal to give it to you right? ;))))) (dont worry, if i go to the installfest i'll bring it, bewarez, its warez!!!) > You won't need partition magic unless you want to join the two partitions. > i suggest you forget about partition magic and just make the current linux > partition a new win98 partition. Inlinux, fire up fdisk. Change the > partition type of the linux partition to fat32. Then when you boot up > win98, the drive will appear in your "My Computer" windows and all you have > to do is right click on it and choose "Format" to make a fat32 file system > on it. Then, get to a command prompt and type "fdisk /mbr" to get rid of > lilo. There you have it, stand-alone win98 box. > > Gabe > > On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:19:28AM -0700, Vanessa Van Alstine wrote: > > I was at the last Installfest, and after a grueling > > battle, we added a partition on my Win 98 box and got > > RedHat installed. > > > > Well ... now I've got a separate box that's just for > > linux. So I'm bringing that this time. And (she says > > while ducking) could anyone bring Partition Magic or > > the like and help me remove the linux partition from > > the Win 98 box? It's not that I'm not grateful, but I > > could use the HD space and I'd rather keep things > > clean. > > > > I could survive reformatting everything if I have to, > > but I'd really prefer to do this without messing up > > the Win 98 partition. The hardware drivers were a > > complete bear to get working right, and it takes about > > 2 days to reinstall everything. > > > > Ben - are you coming? I still need to return your > > tiedown strap. > > > > Thanks, > > Vanessa > > vvanalst at yahoo.com > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. > > http://invites.yahoo.com/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------- ------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn- linux.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn- linux.org > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- > Gabe Turner | X-President, > UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery > U of M Supercomputing Institute for | Univerisity of Minnesota > Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu > > "Ya lousy bum!" > - Muddy Mudskipper in "Stimpy's Big Day" > ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- > > ---------------------------------------------------------- ----------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn- linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn- linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org