Adrian and Paul,
I have accomplished and the same task that you are conjecturing over. Adrian
is correct in that you have to firt defrag your haddrive (run an error test
first!). ONce you have did this, you can either use fdisk in DOS, which I have
also did successfully, to repartition your windoze drive or do it all from
diskdrake. I took the added precaution of writing down my harddrive
"properties" (the actual size of information currently occupied on my
harddrive.) so that I could give windows two GBs of harddrive space. The rest
I split with my Windoze 2000 Server (which I rarely frequent.. o O (Note to
thyself: remove Windoze 2000) and Linux 7.1 which I adore and love.
I hope my input was both informative and encouraging. I have two boxes that I
run primarily Linux. One box I use as my "R & D" box for all sorts of programs
and hardware configurations. The other box, is my baby that I call my "Lady"
:) She is the dynamic smooth and powerful result of my labors with "Brutus",
my Research and Development box.>)
--Al
"Adrian Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Paul said:
Yes, you can point out the windows partition. If that does not occupy the
entire disk, then you're fine. If it does occupy the entire disk, I do not
know if you can resize the partition through diskdrake without losing
data, I have never done that. Perhaps someone else knows that?
so i say:
If diskdrake is what runs during the GUI install of Mandrake, then yes you
can. when i installed 7.0 i used that program to slice a 4G windoze drive
into windoze/linux/swap. and it all came out ok for me. of course i have
only done it that one time. naturally, to do this you have to have X amount
of free space to create a drive of X size. i think it also helps to defrag
the windoze drive before you go to cut it up. i think they mention that in
the instructions that come with 7.0
Adrian Smith
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