Re: [newbie] FIPS and File Systems

2003-03-07 Thread civileme
On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:32 pm, Passing Memory wrote: Hi All, I have been trying to use FIPSto safely partition my HardDrive before installing Linux but it doesn't work. I keep having the following error: Unknown File System I tried on disk formatted by Windows XP and on another

Re: [newbie] FIPS and File Systems

2003-03-07 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 11:54:22 -0900 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have NT filesystems installed. Use partition magic or reinstall Windows on just part of the disk. Or get the 9.1 RC2 or wait for the final. In 9.1 diskdrake has the ability to resize NTFS, even that as done by XP.

[newbie] FIPS and File Systems

2003-03-06 Thread Passing Memory
Hi All, I have been trying to use FIPSto safely partition my HardDrive before installing Linux but it doesn't work. I keep having the following error: Unknown File System I tried on disk formatted by Windows XP and on another disk formatted by Windows 2000, but it fails on both. PLease help.

Re: [newbie] FIPS and File Systems

2003-03-06 Thread robin
Passing Memory wrote: Hi All, I have been trying to use FIPSto safely partition my HardDrive before installing Linux but it doesn't work. I keep having the following error: Unknown File System I tried on disk formatted by Windows XP and on another disk formatted by Windows 2000, but it fails on

Re: [newbie] FIPS and File Systems

2003-03-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 09:32, Passing Memory wrote: Hi All, I have been trying to use FIPSto safely partition my HardDrive before installing Linux but it doesn't work. I keep having the following error: Unknown File System I tried on disk formatted by Windows XP and on another disk

Re: [newbie] FIPS and File Systems

2003-03-06 Thread et
On Thursday 06 March 2003 05:32 pm, Passing Memory wrote: Hi All, I have been trying to use FIPSto safely partition my HardDrive before installing Linux but it doesn't work. I keep having the following error: Unknown File System I tried on disk formatted by Windows XP and on another

Re: [newbie] FIPS and File Systems

2003-03-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Passing Memory wrote: Hi All, I have been trying to use FIPSto safely partition my HardDrive before installing Linux but it doesn't work. I keep having the following error: Unknown File System I tried on disk formatted by Windows XP and on another disk formatted by Windows 2000, but it

[newbie] FIPS

2000-05-14 Thread Paul
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Kenny wrote: doesnt fibs format and partiton a drive with destroying data?? Nope. It is the freeware equivalent to Partition Magic. Use at own risk. It is included on the distro CD, with decent manual... Paul )0(---)0( Silence. Do you

[newbie] Fips

2000-01-17 Thread John and Veronica
I used fips to re-partition my hard drive for linux. I created I created a 1.5G partition and installed linux on that. I had the installation install Lilo on the MBR, but when I was done I could only boot to my linux side. In fact, I could only see the empty part of my original partition when I

[newbie] FIPS

1999-09-12 Thread Rommel Barbosa
Hi. I have windows and Linux Mandrake installed in the same HD. I want to have more room for the windows partition. Do I have to uninstall linux to resize the partitions with FIPS? Thanks, Rommel __ Get Your Private, Free Email at

Re: [newbie] FIPS

1999-09-12 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, you wrote: Hi. I have windows and Linux Mandrake installed in the same HD. I want to have more room for the windows partition. Do I have to uninstall linux to resize the partitions with FIPS? Yes, but WHY would you want to do something like give the bloated beast of