Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install fails to repartition disk.

2000-08-21 Thread Charles Galpin
no, but I have done so several times with fips 2.x. Works great. charles On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Doug McGarrett wrote: > Out of curiosity, has anyone on this list used parted to shrink a FAT or > FAT32 partition? I have used it to extend a FAT32 parti

Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install fails to repartition disk.

2000-08-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > I've had no problems with partition magic for shrinking. Used it for > shrinkin' existing FAT, FAT32 and NTFS partitions in order to free place > for Linux. Btw, what's this parted? I haven't used partition magic since pre 4.0 ( was it 3.2? ). That v

Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install fails to repartition disk.

2000-08-20 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Gordon Messmer wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Doug McGarrett wrote: > > > This sounds like a job for Partition Magic. Why keep hitting your > > head against a stone wall? > > Out of curiosity, has anyone on this list used parted to shrink a FAT or > FAT32 partition? I have used it to extend

Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install fails to repartition disk.

2000-08-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Doug McGarrett wrote: > This sounds like a job for Partition Magic. Why keep hitting your > head against a stone wall? Out of curiosity, has anyone on this list used parted to shrink a FAT or FAT32 partition? I have used it to extend a FAT32 partition, and was quite happy

Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install fails to repartition disk.

2000-08-10 Thread Doug McGarrett
This sounds like a job for Partition Magic. Why keep hitting your head against a stone wall? At 06:26 PM 08/08/2000 +1200, you wrote: > >This is a first time install from CD on a Toshiba Satellite 4060. It has a >single primary DOS/Windows FAT32 partition occupying all of the 4GB disk. > >The i