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On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, 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-
>
