"Doin' the Bull Dance, Feelin' the Flow..." wrote:
> I'm trying to help a friend install Linux on his computer. Unfortunately,
> he didn't have the easy luxury of deleting his DOS partition first. He
> needs to keep it. So, we tried partition magic. No success. so, we tried
> making the rootdisk for the Slackware installation umsdos so we could just
> install Linux on the existing partition. When we tried to install it, the
> boot disk worked fine, but then right when the login prompt should have
> popped up, the system just stopped.
>
> The easy way around this is wait for him to get his old HD from home, which
> is a 500 MB one that we can just wipe out and start from scratch on. But,
> he wanted it on there now and I can't figure it out.
>
> thoughts?
>
Hi Evan,
have you tried fips on your friend's HDD? It's a good solution for
nondestructive partitioning if there is
still some free space left on it. But do make sure to defragment the drive
before you use fips!
It's available at www.ntech.demon.co.uk/download.htm and many other archives
(this URL just came out first on Lycos).
--
See you,
Christoph Hammann
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