I know this, I have partition magic and I found that out a while ago. Even
with it installed, I have to move all partitions on my harddrive forward,
so the linux "/boot" partition is at the start of the drive. If I don't do
this, then the install program won't let me do anything, it says that the
boot partition is too big. I have 10 gigs left unpartitioned at the end of
my drive, where I wanted to put linux. WHen I run the installer, it says
that the boot partition is too big, and won't let me install. I don't want
a 2 mb partition at the beginning of my harddrive for linux, I want
everthing to do with linux in that unpartitioned space at the end of my
drive. Thanks for the help though.
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Equality72521 wrote:
> I don't know a lot about the subject but I have learned that Windows creates a
>partition the size of the hard drive it is installed on. Linux cannot create a
>partition within a partition so you have to use software like Partition Magic to
>resize the Windows partition without destroying any data on your hard drive.You can
>then create the necessary partitions required for Linux with the unpartitioned space.
> Windows has a program called fdisk to resize partitions but it destroys all data on
>the disk. I am going through the same battle so I hope this helps you.
>
Jake McHenry
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