I used Partition Magic 5.0 to partition my hard drive-- with Windows already
installed
I thought the quality of the program was very high and the approach very
thoughtful. The documentation is excellent
You would be prudent to first review the Linux Disk HOW-TO, particularly is
you have a hard drive with a capacity of over 8GB since special
considerations apply about the location of the Linux boot sector
David
----- Original Message -----
From: Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Abdul Emandien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: Beginner...
> At 01:12 PM 3/8/00 +0200, Abdul Emandien wrote:
>
> >I would like to know what programs are available for partitioning
> >Hard-drives with Windows already installed on it...(without losing any
info
> >on it )
>
> The only one I can think of is something called Partition Magic. I haven't
> used it and I think it is not Open Source or otherwise freely
distributable
> -- it comes with one or more of the "full-price" packages from major Linux
> distributors (Red Hat? I forget). I've seen many warnings that it does bad
> things, but, as I said, I have no personalt experience from which to
judge.
>
> >I would like to install Redhat 6.1 but can't seem to get past the
> >re-partitioning part....
> >
> >The "NEXT" button does not light up when I use Linux's fdisk...
>
> fdisk uses an ncurses display; it has no NEXT button. You'll need to
explain
> this a bit more clearly.
>
> >Any ideas....
> >
> >also......is a 1 GB hard-drive big enough...????
>
> For Linux by itself ... sure. To share with Windows ... I doubt it. I
doubt
> 1 gig is big enough for Windows by itself.
>
> While you can fit a specialized Linux distribution in as little as 40 megs
> (actually, some fit on a single floppy), a general-purpose workstation
these
> days needs at least 400 megs to install, and Red Hat's general-purpose
> workstation probably a bit more than that. The smallest disk I now use for
> workstation installs is about 1.2 gigs.
>
> ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
> Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
> Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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