Gabe Turner officer wrote: > > You won't need partition magic unless you want to join the two partitions. > i suggest you forget about partition magic and just make the current linux > partition a new win98 partition. Inlinux, fire up fdisk. Change the > partition type of the linux partition to fat32. Then when you boot up > win98, the drive will appear in your "My Computer" windows and all you have > to do is right click on it and choose "Format" to make a fat32 file system > on it. Then, get to a command prompt and type "fdisk /mbr" to get rid of > lilo. There you have it, stand-alone win98 box. > Can fdisk move partitions? I have a laptop that has a two-partition 6GB drive. Both partitions are formatted to NTFS. With PartitionMagic (in the past), I have been able to shrink the size of the second partition in order to make space for Linux. However, PartitionMagic chokes upon startup on this laptop so I was looking for alternatives. Right now, I really can't ax the partition and redo it. -- Perry Hoekstra Consultant Talent Software Solutions dutchman at mn.uswest.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org