Hi Stan, Being a newbie and all, I am probably not the right person to answer your question, but since I have been through the same deal, I will give it a shot. I have three OS's on my drive and I have lost partitions in the past for making stupid mistakes, so here is what I have done... I used Partition Magic (and I have used it lots, it is safe with XP as far as my experience goes, you need version 7 to be sure that NTFS 5 is supported) to shrink my partitions. I have heard from other tech's that you should not use PM to create new partitions though as they may be unstable, so I have been avoiding that myself too. Then, I wonder if you could not download Fdisk for Linux, or perhaps even start an installation with a different distro, just to get to the partitioning part so that you can make your Linux partitions and then you could go from there?? I know that in Mandrake 9 that partitioning tool was awesome (sorry, I can't remember the name, but I'd be happy to lend you my disks); graphical and definately taking my NT partitions into account when creating the Linux partitions...
I hope this was at all helpful... Diana -----Original Message----- From: Stanley A. Schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 9:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Re: Partitions and FIPS Bruce and All: On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Bruce Norby wrote: > Well I'd like to partition my hard drive non-destructively and my Linux came > with FIPS. Is FIPS good and above all safe on an XP system? There are those among us who would tell you that there is nothing either good or safe on an XP system! Any operating system that makes you check back with 'mother' every time you want to change your socks has just got to be up to something unethical or at least against your best interests. Peace, health, wisdom and wealth. Live long and prosper. Stan Schultz Techno-Geek wannabe Home: (403) 230-1911 Work: (403) 220-8570 FAX: (403) 270-8928 Webpage: http://www.ucalgary.ca/~schultz *******************************************************
