Re: Newbie Reinstall question

[Denice <deatrich lcavsun1 epfl ch>]

On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Jay Beydoun wrote:

> Ok I admit it, I'm new to Linux and I thought I would try poking around
> a little to figure things out.
> 
> I'm running a Win98/Linux machine and decided to play with the Kernel
> in Redhat 6.0.  Really it's not my fault, I thought I could just go to the RH
> FTP site find any updates or patches and install them with the click of the
> mouse :)
> 
> Any how to make a long story short I managed to make a little mess of things.
> 
> I'm able to start the system and use Linux to an extent, but I think I would be
> better off trying everything over from scratch.
> 
> My partitions are as follows..
> 
> 135MB /Swap file
> 15MB /Boot
> 2GB /Root
> 8 +/- GB Win98
> 
> I would just go into partition Magic program and format the Linux partitions
> and just recreate them, but I'm concerned about the Lilo program that boots on
> startup.  Should I unload Lilo in some special way?
> 
> I do have the RD install CD if that makes any difference.
> 
> Please if anyone has any ideas on how I should go about putting things back 
> together
> let me know.


Just re-install linux the same way you did in the past.  Your partitions
are already set up, so you don't have to re-run druid or fdisk.  Just make
sure that you select the linux partitions (swap, boot and / ) for
FORMATing when you get to that option.  That's all.

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