"..Thirdly, I have a largish HDD, and rather than re-format the whole thing, if I could somehow 'create' a multiboot with Linux/Windoze over my existing system, it would be better. I've heard lots of different stuff, the upshot was that most say you can't, and one guy said you can, with Partition Magic. Any ideas?..."
If its a FAT partition you can use FIPS (www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips/) to resize it. Its free and worked for me without any dramas when I first installed linux ~6 months ago. It may already be on your distributions cd. I think there is a GNU tool called parted which does a similar thing but don't know much about it. Steve. ps. still quite newbie-ish myself so don't know the answer to your other q's...... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
