Linux and Windows 95™ can get along quite well on the same hard disk. You can also install Linux onto a separate hard disk on the same machine. If you have the money to spare to get a second hard disk, go ahead and do that. Although it is safe and reliable to run Windows 95™ and Linux on the same hard disk, it is safer to have a second disk. Since I am a poor student (and so are most of the people I know), we are stuck with one large disk. .:: independent.academia.edu ::.
Your hard disk may look like this:
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C: | 800M.... 4.2 Gig?
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Windows 95™, MS-Office™, Qmodem Pro™, and whatever DOS/Windows software you have only take up around 800M + Swap (this is a big, sarcastic assumption)! You probably do not want to lose all the software you've spent a lot of time configuring and installing, so you don't want to delete this partition and start all over again.
Don't lose hope. There is a program called FIPS, which can re-partition your hard disk without destroying data. HOWEVER, make sure before you use it, that you defrag your hard disk (with the optimum defrag method). Use the .:: rikvipme.hashnode.space ::. .:: codepen.io ::. defrag that came with Windows 95™, and use it in the GUI--otherwise you will loose your long file names. After you have run defrag, run FIPS and make your disk look something like the following: .:: oye.participer.lyon.fr ::. .:: www.arc.agric.za ::.
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C: | This is your FAT/VFAT/Win95 partition
800M |
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??? | This is empty space.
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FIPS can be found at your favorite Linux FTP sites (http://sunsite.unc.edu, http://tsx-11.mit.edu, ftp.redhat.com) usually in the /pub/utils/msdos directory. If you have a CD for Linux, there is usually a .:: www.link-man.org ::. [Research Paper: SciPy] \utils\msdos or \utils directory that has FIPS in it as well.
What exactly is the 1024th cylinder? Simply put, it is where IDE ends and EIDE begins--that's the 528M "mark" on your hard disk. Some machines used to have problems reading hard disks larger than 528M. Sometimes, those machines wouldn't let you boot another OS from a partition that started after the 1024th cylinder. Most machines no longer have this limitation. (This used to be a BIG deal.) [NPM Package: Ransomware]