I did this with no problems. First you have to run defrag, and make sure you
have enough empty space at the end of the windows partition. Then you run
the mandrake installer, and when it gets to the partitioning, resize your
windows partition (if there's any warnings like 234443434 > 210008593 then
cancel it, you would lose data). Just create your linux partitions and
you're ready to install. Make sure you back up your windows files before you
do this, i had to reinstall windows the first time I tried to install
mandrake.
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 5:00 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Subject: Re: [newbie] Very simple question on Partitioning
>
>
> Have I missed something here? I understood that the DOS
> version of fdisk
> zeroed (what was that called?) when used to repartition a HDD,
> thus forcing a
> reinstall. I understood that the Linux fdisk only altered the partition
> information itself. I thought that was why all of the gyrations
> to resize a
> DOS partition to make room for Linux were necessary. Is there a
> simple way
> to resize a DOS partition without having to reinstall Windoze,
> for those of
> us still stuck having to use it? -Gary-
>
> In a message dated 9/6/2000 5:23:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> <<
> I have accomplished and the same task that you are conjecturing
> over. Adrian
> is correct in that you have to firt defrag your haddrive (run an
> error test
> first!). ONce you have did this, you can either use fdisk in
> DOS, which I
> have
> also did successfully, to repartition your windoze drive or do
> it all from
> diskdrake. I took the added precaution of writing down my harddrive
> "properties" (the actual size of information currently occupied on my
> harddrive.) so that I could give windows two GBs of harddrive
> space. The rest
> >>
>
>
