On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 at 18:56, Erwin L Alquiza wrote:
> I installed that bad Windows ME on my computer (and later Windows 98).
> With all the applications needed I decided to have a dual boot my
> system with RedHat Linux 6.1. First, I defragmented my had disk.
> Then run fips20.
FIPS will have a problem shrinking your partition during situations where
certain files are still in the outskirts of an existing partition (the end
of it that it hopes to be able to free).
I personally recommend you partition your hard drive before installing
anything (or does Windows ME not allow a situation like that?). This way
you can also give Linux the theoretically faster part of your hard drive
(the beginning, usually).
I normally partition, install Winblows, and then install Linux. You could
install Linux first, but Windows will mess up your MBR so you'll need to
have a bootdisk ready so you can run lilo to rewrite itself on your MBR.
Or you could create a small partition as the first partition to become
your '/boot'. Make lilo write here instead of to the MBR. Windows will
rewrite your MBR after installation, but just reactivate your first
partition using fdisk (even under Windows) as the boot partition, and
maybe run 'fdisk /mbr' after, and restart. You should get lilo again. :)
--> Jijo
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