b/web,
I used the dos fdisk to split the disk originally. Then I used a standard
format program to format the drive. It would be good if diskdrake was
available for general use but I don't think you can run it outside of a linux
install.
After Windows was installed I ran the setup for linux and used diskdrake to
format the remaining drives and allocate the drive for /home etc. I
reinstalled windows from scratch, so that doesn't really fix your problem
though, unless you have a burner or zip drive???
My swap partition is on a different drive to my linux partition so this wasn't
really a problem for me but the best way to go for you would be to allocate
some of your unformated partition to linux swap during the diskdrake step of
the install. That is (you have a 17gig HD?) split it in two using fdisk,
format the second partition, install windows, then run linux setup, use disk
drake to split off another 250MB of what remains as swap and allocate the rest
to linux. DD will format your linux drive and swap for you during the install,
and set all other parameters based on the drives usage. LILO will still pick
up your windows drive when it installs, and will give you this option once you
install.
Let me know how you go.
Wayne
