On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 13:12, Rodney G. Garayt wrote: > I want to know what the correct steps are for partitioning a drive > during a new RH9 install. > My setup is two hd. The boot drive is fully allocated to Win98 and the > second drive is for Linux. What I want to do is allocate 10 gig from > the primary drive (the "win98 drive") for Linux. > How do I do that? If you really need 10 gig from that win98 drive for linux you'll have to re-partition the drive. I'm assuming you don't want to trash anything on your Win98 drive and the drive has one big'ol Fat32 partition on it useing the whole drive. 1) Your could backup your windows, repartition the drive With 2 partitions trashing everything, then restore windows to the smaller partition. then you would have space to install on hda. 2) shrink your windows partiton with Partition Magic or something like it (are there any open source programs that will do this??) leaving you space for your linux partiton. 3) install linux to your other drive. Once you have room on the win98 drive for a linux partition the installer should be fairly self explanatory. You can format the space on the drives 3 ways with the installer if I'm not mistaken, using fdisk, Disk druid gui, or full auto, whatever that is. - Tom > My previous version of Linux was Mandrake 9.1 and that has a very nice > partitioning tool (diskdrake) that would have allowed me to do that > during the install process but I coudn't figure it out with the GUI RH9 > install. What should I have done? Can the Mandrake installer shrink existing Fat32 partitions? > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Tom Penney <blots at visi.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list