On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 14:19, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I've done it both ways and been OK, but I've read that some people
> have not been so lucky, so create the partition in windows. Create
> the linux partitions with diskdrake.
>
> Remember that if you start an install you can 'dummy run' - you can
> try out your partition settings because nothing is written to disk
> until you finish. It will warn you when it is about to write the
> partition table, and you can abort at any time before that write and
> you will be perfectly safe.
Okay, I've obviously still have a lot of learning to do before I
understand this process, as I'm at a loss at this point. Perhaps it's
more difficult and/or undoable because I'm dealing with existing
WinXP/NTFS and Linux/Ext3 partitions, and a block of free space smack
dab in the middle, and it would be a simpler process if installing Linux
from scratch at this point?
In short, my previous setup (prior to resizing the XP partition downward
in size was, roughly, a 40GB drive split thusly:
25GB NTFS/XP partition, followed by a
15GB logical partition, consisting of /, swap and /home
I resized the XP partition down to 15GB, freeing up an approximately
10GB block of drive, so I now have it sitting between hda1 and hda5 ...
Partition Manager (which I'm still learning and getting used to) seems
to only want to offer the option to create another primary drive out of
that free space -or- give me the option of extending the logical drive
containing hda5, swap and hda7.
Again, I'm confused and admittedly still pretty ignorant about this
whole process. Have I blundered already in my shrinking of the NTFS
position and leaving the block of "free" space in the midst there, or am
I just missing some important concept here? (A somewhat rhetorical
question, as I know I'm missing a lot in terms of knowledge of the
process).
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