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David Tiefenbrunn wrote: | Hi, all. | | I bought a (used) computer that came with SuSe linux installed. I would | like to set it up so I can boot either Linux or WIN98 (I know, yuck, but I | still have some stuff that I need to use there) | | The HD is currently set up as one 20gig partition. Can I split it or do I | have to start all over from the beginning? Of course, I don't have the | linux install CD. |
There is a program called GNU Parted that should allow you to resize the partition, depending on what filesystem it was formatted with. See it's homepage at <http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html> for more details.
After resizing the existing partition, create a new partition with the free space & install windows there. Note that installing windows will overwrite the master boot record, making the Linux partition unbootable, so make sure you have a boot floppy created before installing windows. After installing windows, boot to Linux with the floppy boot disk, and reconfigure /etc/lilo.conf to boot either the Linux or Windows partition, and reinstall lilo on the MBR with /sbin/lilo.
Hope this helps, Conway S. Smith -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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