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Hi everyone!
I just received a computer that had windows 98 on it from a relative as a gift. I would like to try and run linux on it, but there seems to be a problem. Windows is not completely on it. The only files on the hard disk are COMMAND. There is no uninstall program, and from what I read on the microsoft web site, there is no way to uninstall windows 98. Does this mean that I will not be able to load another operating system on it? (I downloaded the fedora .iso files) Thanks in advance.
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Re: installing linux over troubled windows

There is no way to uninstall Windows, but you can format/erase the Windows partitions, and install Linux on that free space.
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Re: installing linux over troubled windows

Just pop in your FC2 cd . Delete the exsiting partions and recreate them in linux

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Thank you very much for the help!
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