On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Jason Hataye wrote: > > Here's what I want to DO: > 128 MB RAM > One 3 gig hard drive (in second IDE slot) > One 30 gig hard drive (in first IDE slot) > Red Hat Linux 7.1, give the partition about 2/3 of my HD space > Windoze 98, give the partition about 1/3 of my HD space > Use LILO to boot Anyway, you had a REAL question in there :-) What *I* would do is grab yourself a copy of a Windoze boot disk with fdisk on it and a copy of Tom's root boot. Make the drive changes and change all the info in the BIOS as you had described. Boot with the 'doze floppy, fdisk the drive. Make yourself a 10 GB FAT32 partition and set it active. Reboot the machine with Tom's root boot and 'dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/hda1' to move your existing Windoze partition (I'm assuming you want to keep Windoze running as is) to your new drive. Reboot once again using the Windoze boot disk and do a 'sys c:' to make it bootable. Then, boot to the hard disk and make sure Windoze starts. Once you know Windoze has been copied correctly, pop in the RH7.1 disc and do the install, carving up the other 20 gigs as you like. Make no changes to the 3 gig. Once you have your system booting OK and all your imporatnt stuff moved off the 3 GB onto your new drive, wipe the 3 gig, partition it to your liking, and mount it somewhere nice. The ONLY question I have is whether or not dd will just accept the new partition or whether it will resize to the old one. You may have to use 'cat /dev/hdb1 > /dev/hda1' instead. Anyone have an idea? Anyway, I'm doing something similar when I upgrade and that's how I was planning to do it. -Brian