On Wednesday 26 December 2001 06:11 pm, you wrote: Maybe I am confused. I thought that Mandrake was using diskdrake to do the partitioning during the install and it wasn't able to do the "resize". Is that wrong? chuck
> On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 14:28:54 -0700 > > Charles Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > > Not being a great command line user, but not too afraid of DOS, I would > > like to try using FIPS if it might do it. I looked at it on the first cd > > of Mandrake while in windows and it cautioned that it needs to be run in > > DOS. With what little I know of DOS, I tried to call it up from the cd in > > DOS without luck. Can anyone give me more specific instructions on how to > > use it? > > why not just use diskdrake to repartition the drive? You "can" do this > during an install process when you've booted from the Mandrake install CD. > I've found this method to be quite easy and quick. Especially when dealing > with badly behaved partitions that just don't seem to want to do what you > want them to do. > > fdisk is out of the question because it's just not powerful enough. If > you're considering using FIPS then the situation warrents the use of > something powerful. diskdrake definately fits here and allows for much more > control then FIPS.
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