I tried several ways to use diskdrake and it just wouldn't resize the partition, that's why I used FIPS.
To make life as simple as possible I created a DOS boot floppy disk, copied FIPS onto it, booted from the floppy and ran FIPS. All of this may not actually be necessary but I like to keep things a simple as possible when doing things to my hard drives. Since I didn't catch the beginning of this thread I am assuming that you ran defrag in windows before starting all of this. Good luck. TC --- daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 20:42:00 -0700 > Charles Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly > spake these words to ponder: > > > 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 > > Chuck, > > yes, diskdrake is used during the install, however, > diskdrake will do everything you need it to do. it's > not quite as robust as partition magic in some ways, > but it's darn close, and in other ways it surpasses > Partition Magic. It will resize, reformat, (many > different filesystem types) and a lot of other stuff > that escapes me at the moment. it's a heck of a > tool. You can access it from a running Linux > installation, or from the install CD's. either way > will work just fine. > > give it a shot. > > -- > daRcmaTTeR > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told > you to do > the first time! > > Registered Linux User 182496 > Mandrake 8.1 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 9:05am up 11 days, 54 min, 2 users, load > average: 0.05, 0.22, 0.26 > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com
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