Re: Partitioning HD

2001-02-20 Thread Mike Burger
Scratch what I said, earlier. Grab parted, or Partition Magic. Shrink your C: drive by about 15MB at th efront of the drive. You can even shrink the C: at the back of the drive, too. When you go to partition, designate that 15MB slice as /boot (keeping your boot area above the 1024 cylinder ma

Re: Partitioning HD

2001-02-20 Thread Mike Burger
If you don't need the 2nd partition for DOS/Windows, at all, you can use the Linux fdisk to change the partition type to type 83 (Linux native)...or you can delete that partition and repartition the 2GB space (assuming that it's currently your D: drive) for use with LInux...eithr way, you can gene

Re: Partitioning HD

2001-02-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, you wrote: > I have two partitions, both Fat32. Would like to install RH 7 and am > trying to find out if I need to repartion the entire drive and reload > everything or is there a way to just add the linux partitions. > > My two partitions are 16G and 2G both on the same HD

Partitioning HD

2001-02-20 Thread Charles
I have two partitions, both Fat32. Would like to install RH 7 and am trying to find out if I need to repartion the entire drive and reload everything or is there a way to just add the linux partitions. My two partitions are 16G and 2G both on the same HDD The box is a Compaq pentium II 533. Th

Partitioning HD

2000-04-15 Thread Bob Hartung
4/13/2000 Resubmitted hoping the list is back up. Hi I have installed RH on several PCs in the past. Now I am bring an old Pentium 133 back into play as a Masquerade server. I has 96 MB RAM, 2.1 GB HD [the smallest and cheapest that I could find in my neck of the woods] and two linksys 10/100