Hi Even,
I used fips, which comes which I know comes with the redhat
distributions. It worked for me on a new acer 266 notebook, under
windows 98 and fat32. I was able to make the first 3.5 gig for win98 and
the last 500meg for linux and swap. Only made an extra partition with
fips, and make the swap using fdisk from linux during the install,
cheers
Johann
Doin' the bull dance, feelin' the flow... wrote:
> I will, in 2 days, be attempting to help a friend install linux
> (RedHat
> 5.1) onto her machine... She has, and needs to keep, Win95. She's
> going
> to create a 1 gig partition for Linux...both swap and the linux
> native.
> Now, I have never partitioned a HD that already has an OS on it.
> Since my
> linux box is JUST a linux box, I never had to worry about messing
> anything
> up. We will be backing up her HD, but nonetheless... I don't want to
>
> mess it up and I have heard that Windoze doesn't like it when you do
> things like partition your HD...so, how do I get around this evil
> demon
> created my M$?
>
> What are the steps I should take to partition the drive? I would
> assume
> that we will have to use Linux fdisk... What's the best way to do
> that?
> Create a boot disk for linux and a root disk and put fdisk on that? I
>
> have also never used RedHat, so I have NO idea what is on there...
> I'm
> using an older version of Slackware...
>
> ANY help at all would be appreciated... Thanks!
>
> -Evan-
