RE: [newbie] 7.0 partioning ?

2000-02-15 Thread Serge Manoukhin
you need in partition magic On 14-Feb-2000 Russell Simmons wrote: i have a dual boot box (windoze 98/lm 6.0) on a 5.1 gig wd hd...when i partitioned the drive i gave 4 gigs to windoz, (c), and i gig to use for linux, (d), (hda1=windoz, hda2=linux swap, hda3=/, hda4=/home)...i used linux fdisk

Re: [newbie] 7.0 partioning ?

2000-02-14 Thread James Mellema
Russell Simmons wrote: i have a dual boot box (windoze 98/lm 6.0) on a 5.1 gig wd hd...when i partitioned the drive i gave 4 gigs to windoz, (c), and i gig to use for linux, (d), (hda1=windoz, hda2=linux swap, hda3=/, hda4=/home)...i used linux fdisk to partition the 1 gig...a friend of

Re: [newbie] 7.0 partioning ?

2000-02-14 Thread Tony
the answer is "yes it should" however playing with partition size has always had the potential for disaster and this is probably as true of Mandrake as of human operator.Best to run defrag beforehand to give the best chance and should then be OK. - Original Message - From: "Russell