On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 18:07, mike wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I recently got a Laptop (Patriot 2410,bargin basement PC World Job) and have
> spent the day trying to work out how to partition the disk so I can pop
> RedHat 7.2 on.
>
> The drive is 10GB and in NTFS, I tried FIPS2 but it does not like the NT
> File Sys. As all my data is served from another box tried to use the
> recovery disk hoping it would give an option to install with a FAT or VFAT
> FS but, of course, it is an idiot proof 'Recovery Disk' rather than a true
> XP disk.
>
> I can not find anything on the web about splitting the disk.
I was trying to do the exact same thing. I managed to do it using
Partition Magic in Windows XP.
Ewan :-)
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