-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 12:27, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 06:11 > Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 29 February 2004 12:05, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > I have been advised to defragment windows. Then boot linux from > > cd (I assume CD1 with either 9.2 or 10.orc1) then shrink the > > windows partition. The problem is I dont know how to do that. > > Could somewone provide some detail? > > I think the installer actually asks if you want it to reclaim > unused space from the windows partition. > > I dont recall seeing that in several installations is it in the > expert mode. I could use more detail. > I would think so. I've never had to do it, and I'm speaking from memory, but I do always use the expert mode, as it gives you more flexibility. You can afford to go in an look for yourself, because nothing has been written to disk from the installation at that point. Until you actually tell it to shrink the partition or whatever you can back out without any risk. HTH
Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAQd2ykFAvMr/nNX8RAuEvAJ9qjPo+Orj08NcNnsSX/NigYXWAQACeOfGj /fSAAwpJbfpdMfqby9xVY+g= =KtWb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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