Tom Penney wrote: >On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 13:12, Rodney G. Garayt wrote: > > >>I want to know what the correct steps are for partitioning a drive >>during a new RH9 install. >>My setup is two hd. The boot drive is fully allocated to Win98 and the >>second drive is for Linux. What I want to do is allocate 10 gig from >>the primary drive (the "win98 drive") for Linux. >>How do I do that? >> >> > >If you really need 10 gig from that win98 drive for linux you'll have to >re-partition the drive. I'm assuming you don't want to trash anything on >your Win98 drive and the drive has one big'ol Fat32 partition on it >useing the whole drive. > >1) Your could backup your windows, repartition the drive With 2 >partitions trashing everything, then restore windows to the smaller >partition. then you would have space to install on hda. > >2) shrink your windows partiton with Partition Magic or something like >it (are there any open source programs that will do this??) leaving you >space for your linux partiton. > >3) install linux to your other drive. > >Once you have room on the win98 drive for a linux partition the >installer should be fairly self explanatory. You can format the space on >the drives 3 ways with the installer if I'm not mistaken, using fdisk, >Disk druid gui, or full auto, whatever that is. > >- Tom > > > >>My previous version of Linux was Mandrake 9.1 and that has a very nice >>partitioning tool (diskdrake) that would have allowed me to do that >>during the install process but I coudn't figure it out with the GUI RH9 >>install. What should I have done? >> >> > >Can the Mandrake installer shrink existing Fat32 partitions? > > >>_______________________________________________ >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> I have win98 on a 60 gig hd and RH9 on a 5 gig hd. If I had re-installed Mandrake from scratch I could have defined 10 gigs from the "c:" drive along with the 5 gig drive for Linux... I seem to recall having done this in the past with Mandrake... anyway that's what I'd like to do now. I absolutely do NOT want to mess with win98. I just had to re-install it a couple of weeks ago and it takes nearly two days to install it and all the other software I use on it. No I don't have PartitionMagic and I don't want to spend the money just for this one-time use. What I think I can do is do a Mandrake install then come back and do a RH install. Sounds kinda like a long way to go but Mandrake would be able to assist me in defining the drives the way I want them. Then when I did RH I'd tell it to accept the existing partitions. Btw, if the 5 gig drive defined for linux is partitioned as /, swap and [the other one... i forget... /usr?] , how should I label/mount the 10 gig ext3 space to linux? _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list