On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Badong Caoili wrote:
> One of our university's labs just got a new piece of equipment that came
> with a PC that's really quite overkill for the job (like it's a Pentium
> III with 64 MB RAM and 8.3 G of free hard disk space). It's got Windows 98
> and software configured for the interfaced equipment all on a single
> primary partition occupying the entire hard disk (and we really wouldn't
> want to mess around with the configured software). We want it to double
> for network stuff (surfing, email, etc.) but we don't want to deal with
> Windows viruses, so we're thinking of using linux in some sort of
> dual-boot setup (not using UMS DOS). What's the safest way of resizing the
> Win98 partition to make space for linux (with emphasis on the fact that we
> don't want to mess up the configured software for the equipment)?
FIPS... I think it's in the tools subdir on most distribs. fips.exe
You might have to defrag first.
- Elfredy Cadapan
- Institute of Computer Science, Univ. of the Philippines at Los Banos
- Home page : http://www.ics.uplb.edu.ph/~evc/
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