[GLLUG] Partitions

Matt Graham danceswithcrows@usa.net
Sun, 19 Jan 2003 12:36:09 -0500 

On Sunday 19 January 2003 04:35, after a long battle with technology, 
April Curley wrote:
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> How do you set up a partition if you want a dual boot sytem? 

More information, please.  If you already have an OS installed on a 
system, and you want to add a Linux partition so you can run Linux, you 
have to either create a new partition in some unpartitioned space, or 
shrink an existing partition so there's some unpartitioned space 
available.  Recent versions of Mandrake and SuSE distros have a nice 
GUI available from the install process that can resize FAT32 partitions 
(you find FAT32 on 'Doze95, 98, ME, and some 2K installations.)

If your disk has only one partition on it, and that partition is NTFS 
('DozeNT, some 2K, default for XP) then things get tricky.  There is no 
Free software available that I know of that will resize an NTFS 
partition.  Recent versions of Partition Magic can do this though.

For detailed advice/guidance on what to do, fully describe what it is 
that you want.  Then boot your system with a Tom's RootBoot floppy or 
Knoppix CD, execute "fdisk -l /dev/hda", and post that information to 
the mailing list.

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