On December 1, 2003 03:32 pm, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
Jonas Widarsson wrote:
I have an Acer Aspire 1703 SM laptop. I think the HD is an ordinary one, like those in stationary computers. I don't know much about how todays harddrives behave, so I'm wondering whether someone has recent experience in splitting the 80 GB primary fat23 partition (the only partition there is) so I can keep the existing winXP home install and install gentoo on the end of those 80 GB and then have a dual boot XP / Gentoo?
Older Slackware Install CDs (and possible newer) distributed a utility called fips that could split a FAT16/32 partition.
i think what you're looking for is gnu parted
# emerge --search parted
should get you what you need
I would suggest QtParted (a gui for parted, http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/). I've never used it, but it looks like it should work with FAT32.
As already mentioned, KNOPPIX would be helpful to get started since you can boot from it and will have a full set of gnu/linux tools available. QtParted (and hence parted) are included with the latest KNOPPIX.
Jonathan
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