Re: [newbie] Linux and windows98
Many replies to this. Thanks. Will Partition Magic 3.0 work with on an 11 Gb win98 partition? It's the version I have easiest access to. -Tom Garrett Williams wrote: Partition Magic will make short work of that process... Tom Brett wrote: Hello: I just bought a Compaq PC with a 13 Gb hard drive and pre-installed win98. Currently, the hard drive is set up with a 2 Gb partition and an 11 Gb partition (both win98). I would like to take part of the 11Gb partition (say 7 Gb) and set it aside for Mandrake Linux 6.0. How would I go about doing this without destroying what already exists on the hard drive? Thanks. -TB -- Tom J. Brett Specialist, X-ray Crystallography Facility Graduate Student- Chemistry Hamilton Hall Box 725 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0304 Phone: (402) 472-8894 Fax: (402) 472-0168 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://prophet4.unl.edu/tb_hp/tom.html
Re: [newbie] Linux and windows98
Tom Brett wrote: Many replies to this. Thanks. Will Partition Magic 3.0 work with on an 11 Gb win98 partition? It's the version I have easiest access to. -Tom Garrett Williams wrote: Partition Magic will make short work of that process... Tom Brett wrote: Hello: I just bought a Compaq PC with a 13 Gb hard drive and pre-installed win98. Currently, the hard drive is set up with a 2 Gb partition and an 11 Gb partition (both win98). I would like to take part of the 11Gb partition (say 7 Gb) and set it aside for Mandrake Linux 6.0. How would I go about doing this without destroying what already exists on the hard drive? Thanks. -TB -- Tom J. Brett Specialist, X-ray Crystallography Facility Graduate Student- Chemistry Hamilton Hall Box 725 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0304 Phone: (402) 472-8894 Fax: (402) 472-0168 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://prophet4.unl.edu/tb_hp/tom.html I think you will need PM 4.0 for over 8.4 gigs. Jeanette
RE: [newbie] Linux and windows98
Back up what is already on the partition, split the partition up, restore the windows stuff back on the partition you set up for it. Some people swear by Partition Magic, it allegedly can resize your partitions non-destructively. You may want to look into it. I know a limited version of it came with either McMillan's or the official Mandrake distribution. Caveat: Make sure the version of Partition Magic you use is as current as you can get. And do the back up before you do any re-partition just for insurance. I used an earlier version on a 13 gig hard drive and it choked, something about DOS or the BIOS not being able to handle a drive over 8 gig or something. To say the least, everything on the drive was trashed. The backup saved the day. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brett Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 4:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Linux and windows98 Hello: I just bought a Compaq PC with a 13 Gb hard drive and pre-installed win98. Currently, the hard drive is set up with a 2 Gb partition and an 11 Gb partition (both win98). I would like to take part of the 11Gb partition (say 7 Gb) and set it aside for Mandrake Linux 6.0. How would I go about doing this without destroying what already exists on the hard drive? Thanks. -TB
Re: [newbie] Linux and windows98
Partition Magic - Original Message - From: Tom Brett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 7:51 PM Subject: [newbie] Linux and windows98 Hello: I just bought a Compaq PC with a 13 Gb hard drive and pre-installed win98. Currently, the hard drive is set up with a 2 Gb partition and an 11 Gb partition (both win98). I would like to take part of the 11Gb partition (say 7 Gb) and set it aside for Mandrake Linux 6.0. How would I go about doing this without destroying what already exists on the hard drive? Thanks. -TB
Re: [newbie] Linux and windows98
Tom Brett wrote: Hello: I just bought a Compaq PC with a 13 Gb hard drive and pre-installed win98. Currently, the hard drive is set up with a 2 Gb partition and an 11 Gb partition (both win98). I would like to take part of the 11Gb partition (say 7 Gb) and set it aside for Mandrake Linux 6.0. How would I go about doing this without destroying what already exists on the hard drive? Thanks. -TB Partition Magic 4.0 is the easiest way. I've been using PM since 2.0 when it first arrived in the OS/2 market. Never let me down.. PM is the greatest utility I've ever bought/owned. Mandrake now also has a partition tool, I'm sorry, I forget the name.. But it sees all my partitions and seems feasible.. Maybe someone can jog my tired memory.. Alan -- === [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Coming to you with Linux-Mandrake 6.0
Re: [newbie] Linux and windows98
There are any number of utils to partition a hard drive non-destructively. The ONLY one I have ever had any experience with is Partition Magic, a commercial util that comes bundled with Mandrake and (I've heard/read) with Caldera Open Linux. I've heard of one that is in the /dos_utils directory of most Linux CDs, unfortunately, I don't know the name and have no experience using it. If you're going to BUY a distribution (not necessary, but a LOT faster than downloading everything you need G) you might as well use the utils that come with the operating system! :-) John - Original Message - From: Tom Brett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 7:51 PM Subject: [newbie] Linux and windows98 Hello: I just bought a Compaq PC with a 13 Gb hard drive and pre-installed win98. Currently, the hard drive is set up with a 2 Gb partition and an 11 Gb partition (both win98). I would like to take part of the 11Gb partition (say 7 Gb) and set it aside for Mandrake Linux 6.0. How would I go about doing this without destroying what already exists on the hard drive? Thanks. -TB
Re: [newbie] Linux and windows98
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Tim Kubista wrote: Partition Magic - Original Message - From: Tom Brett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 7:51 PM Subject: [newbie] Linux and windows98 Hello: I just bought a Compaq PC with a 13 Gb hard drive and pre-installed win98. Currently, the hard drive is set up with a 2 Gb partition and an 11 Gb partition (both win98). I would like to take part of the 11Gb partition (say 7 Gb) and set it aside for Mandrake Linux 6.0. How would I go about doing this without destroying what already exists on the hard drive? Thanks. -TB -- Diskdrake http://www.linux-mandrake.com/diskdrake --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Linux and windows98
Partition Magic will make short work of that process... Tom Brett wrote: Hello: I just bought a Compaq PC with a 13 Gb hard drive and pre-installed win98. Currently, the hard drive is set up with a 2 Gb partition and an 11 Gb partition (both win98). I would like to take part of the 11Gb partition (say 7 Gb) and set it aside for Mandrake Linux 6.0. How would I go about doing this without destroying what already exists on the hard drive? Thanks. -TB
Re: [newbie] Linux and windows98
As will FIPS, from what I've heard.never used it, but that's what is distributed with RedHat. :-) It's in the "dosutils" subdirectory off the CD. John - Original Message - From: Garrett Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 12:59 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux and windows98 Partition Magic will make short work of that process... Tom Brett wrote: Hello: I just bought a Compaq PC with a 13 Gb hard drive and pre-installed win98. Currently, the hard drive is set up with a 2 Gb partition and an 11 Gb partition (both win98). I would like to take part of the 11Gb partition (say 7 Gb) and set it aside for Mandrake Linux 6.0. How would I go about doing this without destroying what already exists on the hard drive? Thanks. -TB
