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Distribution: Slackware, (Non-Linux: Solaris 7,8,9; OSX; BeOS)
Posts: 1,152
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Sorry.
I see two ext3 partitions on /dev/hda and no bootable partitions on /dev/hdb. This means that if your friend truly can boot to linux, any previous data on /dev/hda has been overwritten by the linux install.
We'll chalk this one up to experience. Back to the drawing board. We're going to upgrade his box to a AMD 2000+ on an Asus KT 400 chipset and 1GB of ram. Then we'll install XP and then RedHat 9.
Shouldn't be but a few more days before HuggyBear starts posting again.
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