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Re: A question about disks
On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, Jacques Goldberg wrote:
> I run a Limux system from hard disk # 2 (/dev/hdb) and I never use the
> /dev/hda DOS disk any more, so I wish to remove it from the computer.
> Can somebody please outline what I ought to do?
and you want to make it Linux bootable?
I'd use Fdisk to make it a Linux partition, mkfs to format it (ext2, I
suppose) and then reinstall LILO before booting again. another option
(not too good) is to mount the DOS partition and use it for Unix as-is...
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