In <1992Aug14.193838.16110@nas.nasa.gov> chiu@wk211.nas.nasa.gov (Ing-Tsau Chiu) writes:

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>Wonder if there's any way to install Linux w/o destroying existing
>partitions.  (Sorry if this is an faq.)
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>Ing-Tsau Chiu                       chiu@nas.nasa.gov

 Sure on floppy disks, silly! :-)

 There is some explanation of this in 'install.notes' written by
I Reid.  Actually it's an appendix towards the end written by
Drew Eckhardt.

 I personally wouldn't recommend it, even though I think I understand
what he's doing.

 Basically it seems to me that it's much more work than it is worth.
I did a complete backup of my harddisk of about 60 Megs of data to
floppy disks(720K no less! as I have hundreds of these), using
CP Backup 6.0.  It takes about 1/2 hour to backup, another 1/2 to
reinstall.
 If you've got more than 100 Megs, definately buy a cheap tape
backup for around $200.

 Basically, it just doesn't seem worth the possible frustration, and
you're going to have to backup the partition anyway.

 Any comments?

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