Re: Hard disk repartitioning-II

2003-04-04 Thread James Miller
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Amin wrote: > > I think there's an issue here about Linux needing its boot > partition within the first 1024 cylinders of the hard disk, > or something like that. In any case, here's what I'd The 1024 cylinder limit only applies to older versions of Lilo, as I understand it. A

Re: Hard disk repartitioning-II

2003-04-04 Thread Amin
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 06:51:34AM -0800, Arthur Kng wrote: >1)back up all my data at a friends place. fdisk and > delete all existing partitions. make a > primary partition of 10GB on which i'll load the > Windows OS and which will also have the data > which i want to access

Hard disk repartitioning-II

2003-04-04 Thread Arthur Kng
Hey all, First up, thank you everyone for your prompt help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which goes like this: ( just to remind you, i have a 20GB disk, C drive:5GB having WinME(FAT32), D drive: 15GB having all my data(FAT32), 128MB