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

[Bill Arbaugh]

You don't have to purchase partition magic.  You can use fips which is
freely available.  I used it without a problem to split my win98 partion
so I could dual boot linux/win98 on my T20.

http://www.student.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~schaefer/fips.html 

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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.
> 
> 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)
> 2) Hibernation (if I never use Win98, won't ever sleep in Win98)
> 3) S-Video In/Out (Linux won't do this right?)
> 
> I plan on running Win2KPro from a virtual disk in VMWare, but I would
> like to boot into Linux as much as I can.  Thanks for your responses.
> 
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