Guy Rouillier wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Richard Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux & W2000



PM6 is no good for partitioning where the windblows made partitions
will be remade for the purpose of linux installs, don't use it.

John


I just use PM5 to do exactly that and it worked fine. Had a large NTFS
partition. Used PM5 to resize it down, then used PM5 to also create a Linux
partition in the newly freed up space. Just lucky, I guess.


Yes, I've done as much myself, two things though, one, I think you will have problems
later with the nature of the new partitions, and two, once a linux os is installed it doesn't
properly recognise them for what they are, it recognises them as partitions but not as
proper linux partitions. I remember V7 was the first to cope freely with ext2. I believe,
perhaps someone can confirm it , that v8 can cope freely with the other file systems.

I've been a PM user since v5 to 6 and now 7, and hope to obtain V8 sometime.
It's still the best, and always provided that all partitioning is done with it, it works
the best.It's friendly with windblows and linux.

John

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