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Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:12:12 -0700
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Establishing FAT32

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Jordan and Colin,
Thank you for your responses. I'll try out what you suggested.
HCM

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:37:20 -0700, scoug-help@scoug.com wrote:

>--- Colin Campbell wrote:
>
>> Harry,
>> I found an old 8MB Compact Flash drive
>>
>> I stuck it in my old PNY Compact Flash card reader,
>> and plugged it in to
>> a USB slot. I opened LVM from Local System, System
>> Setup, Maintenance &
>> Installation Volume Manager. Then, I clicked on
>> "Refresh Removeable
>> Media", and nothing appeared to happen.
>
>You're referring to compact flash, rather than a hard
>drive, so what I'm about to say may not be relevant .
>. . .
>Sorry to go back to mentioning the installer, but
>here's what happened on the ThinkPad. When I received
>it, it already had the W2K boot partition -- the whole
>C:, e.g. essentially all of the 20G hard drive --
>which happened to have been FAT-32. I decided to
>leave it as FAT-32. After making a safety image with
>DFSEE (I always like to have a path of retreat, if
>necessary), I shrank the C: down to 10G., to make room
>for eCS. Then I installed RC4 in a newly created HPFS
>E: (D: remains the DVD-ROM drive.) I had the
>installer enable FAT-32 IFS, which is an option.
>Maybe I _did_ have LVM designate the C: as a
>compatibility volume, but have zero recollection of
>having done this, and so am somewhat skeptical that I
>did. eCS went on fine, and I've had read / write
>access to C: ever since. (But I try to greatly
>minimize the writes, because I lack full confidence in
>the safety of this.)
>
>
> Jordan
>
>
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