[ltp] Any reason to keep Win98 on an A20p?

[Mo DeJong]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Guy Davis wrote:

> I recently got hold of an IBM A20p.  I plan on running Red Hat Linux
> 6.2 as the primary OS.  It looks like most people doing this use
> Partition Magic to shrink down the Windows partition and then install
> Linux.  I don't want to buy PM just to use it once.  I'm thinking of
> losing the Windows partition all together.

There is a free tool you can download onto a DOS disk
to resize, I forget what it is called but if you
hunt around for a bit I am sure you could find it.
 
> Is there anything besides the following that I will be giving up by
> not keeping the small Win98 partition?
> 1) Ability to play DVDs (don't have any, don't need any)

I can't play DVDs on my Thinkpad 770X under Windows.
The stupid DVD player that came with the box does
not work. There also do not seem to be any DVD players
one can download. The only way I can watch a DVD is
running livid under Linux. (The sound is a bit choppy
but it works).

Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc
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