PC Authority April has Partition Magic 6.0 on its obligatory CDROMs. (So now I've got Partition Magic 5.0 from Personal Computer World, Partition Magic 6.0 from PC Authority, and Partition Magic 7.0 from the Installfest.)
Whoopee!!!! When will the excitement cease??? Wesley Parish On Tuesday 01 April 2003 04:59 pm, you wrote: > PartitianMagic is a Windows Program and IMHO really good, however you still > run the risk of loosing data while you move it from the area you are giving > back to windows > --Slosh > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brad Beveridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 4:37 PM > Subject: RE: Newbie Joining > > > you should be able to use cfdisk to resize your partitions - however it's > not very graphical, or particularly friendly & you could possibly trash > your partition :) > > Brad > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chris Downie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2003 4:36 p.m. > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Newbie Joining > > > > > > Hi Guys, > > > > I have taken advise and will now pester the list for help. My > > long term goal is to be MS > > free, my short term goal is to go longer than 25 days without > > a BSOD (or equivalent). > > I'm afraid I can't impress you with a flash system, all I > > have to play with is a Cyrix > > 233MMX, 224Mb and 4.3Gb. I took Jason's advise at the > > installfest and got another > > HDD for Linux (the aforementioned 4.3Gb). I have previously > > being running Mandrake > > 8.0 and 9.0 on a 1Gb partition with Win2k on the primary HDD. > > > > I wish to start from scratch again on the new HDD. Please > > assume I have a very basic > > understanding of Linux. > > > > So my first two questions are: > > > > How do I give back the 1Gb partition to Windows? > > > > Other than root, swap and home, should I have any other > > directory on a seperate > > partition? > > > > Cheers, > > Chris -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
