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04-21-2003, 10:15 PM
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Registered: Apr 2003
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Formatting my evil Windoze partition?
I originally installed a dual boot setup on my linux box and now I want to salvage the windows partition and use it strictly for linux....how??? red hat 8 is my flavor
thanks!!!
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04-21-2003, 10:36 PM
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Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Sparta, NC USA
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04
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Run fdisk or cfdisk to partition and mkfs to format.
See this section of the Gentoo installation guide for details better than I can type them. |
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04-21-2003, 11:05 PM
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Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Mosquitoville
Distribution: RH 6.2, Gen2, Knoppix,arch, bodhi, studio, suse, mint
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linux doesn't even care what the partition type is,
you can just mke2fs mkreiserfs the partition, and
skip the fdisk stuff if you want.
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