> I know absolutely nothing about the how-to's or the how-not-to's.
> Subscribing to this litserv was suposed to help but you folx are way
> over my wee-little head.
>
Not really. It'll all get clear once you get passed the steep learning
curve.
> All questions and/or statements are based on not having a clue what I'm
> doing (the story of my life. 8-> )
>
Anyone who makes the attemp to move from MS to Linux, is not clueless :)
> How to I partiton my HDD (Western Digital Caviar 4GB ATA Model 4000RTL)
> without blowing out Win95? I had 4 partitions but I'm willing the blow
> the F:\ drive which will give Linux 921 MB to live in. from what I
> understand that should be more than enough.
Well, here is what I did. When I brought my computer home from the store
it had a 3.2 gig drive partitioned into 1 primary (C:), 1 extended (which
contains 3 logicals (D:, E:, G:). What I did was move *everything* from
the extended partion (D:, E:, F:) to the primary partition (C:). Then, I
ran the fdisk program that came with Linux and blew away the enire
extended partion. I then lopped off a nice chunk for Linux and made an
extended partion for Windoze (logicals D: and E:) with the leftovers.
*REMINDER*
Partitioning is dangerous, so I can't be held responsible for
lost data. This did work for me, and I've suggested it to others who
had no problems, but you never know.
Good Luck!!
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Brian Eith
UW-Madison Computer Sciences
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http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~eith
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