I would love to see a full-featured Partition Magic for Linux. On the + side,
some distributions like Mandrake do use Partition magic. It is the one
program that I keep windows around for.
On 21 Feb 00, at 15:14, Joshua Flythe wrote:
>
> You could also Version 2 of fips which supports fat32. This is what I
> used to repartition my system. Although, after having used Partition
> Magic in the past and now fips, I like Partition Magic much more.
> Both utilities will do the job though.
>
> JDF
>
> Derek Martin wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Matt Herbert wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hey everybody,
> > >
> > > After an awesome quake 3 LAN party this weekend :), one of my friends
> > > decided he wanted to try linux on his system. I excitedly agreed to
> > > help him install Red Hat 6.1. To my surprise and disappointment, I
> > > couldn't get it installed to save my life. He has a new system with
> > > a 27 GIG IDE hard drive. When he set the system up, he formatted a
> > > ~24 GIG Windows partion, and left 3 GIG as unpartioned space. For
> > > some strange reason, the redhat installer simply wouldn't allow me to
> > > create a / partion on that space, it kept saying there wasn't enough
> > > room.
> >
> > You've run into the 8GB problem... For LILO to be able to boot from your
> > /boot partition, it needs to be in the first 1024 (IIRC) cylinders of your
> > disk. As partitioned, I don't believe there is any way to install Linux on
> > your friend's disk. There is hope though... you can get partition magic,
> > move the partition, create a small /boot partition at the beginning of the
> > disk, and then create the rest of your partitions at the end of the disk.
> >
> > --
> > "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" "Who watches the watchmen?"
> > -Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347
> >
> > Derek D. Martin | Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator
> > Arris Interactive | A Nortel Company
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