Summary: I'm having trouble resizing my fat32 (primary) partition so that I can create a new partition to install Mandrake. I've tried using both DiskDrake and...
Summary: I don't know what you plan to do with it, but if you're just going to play a little with it to learn from it, I'd say 4GB is plenty. I installed suse ...
Summary: There may be too much data on the Windows partition to allow shrinking to the size you requested. How large is the hard drive, and how full is it? Al...
Summary: You can only have a maximum of 4 primary partitions. It doesn't matter which one is extended but it's the only workaround to create logical partitions...
Summary: you can have troubles using partition manager and it isn't free so; defrag with windows defrag , not nortons download "partition resizer" and boot wit...
Summary: I prefer using a nondestructive partitioning tool such as Partition Magic. I think I read somewhere that BootIt can do nondestructive partition res...
Summary: I'm guessing that you have redhat 5.2, I don't think that supported partition resizing. You'll have to try a third party app like partition magic. ...
Summary: Hi You have the latest 3.3 live CD version. I think what you may want is a persistant home directory created. Have a look for knoppix in the menus a...
Summary: "fips" (freeware), Partition Resizer (freeware), or Partition Magic (commercial) can shrink the current XP partition. Then use the newly created empt...
Summary: Dfx, looks like Xiao didn't install any /boot partition so grub dosn't know where to go, unless he just didn't report it in his partition table Xiao,...
Summary: The best or easiest way to proceed depends on the details of your current situation. Is Windows XP installed on the computer now? Does the Win...
Summary: Are you starting afresh on a blank drive (the easiest solution) or do you already have XP taking up the whole drive on one partition? If so is it form...
Summary: You can also install Partition Magic. It will let you delete partitions, resize, move, copy,and much more. But Linux is growing and will be much more ...
Summary: If you want to give GNU/Linux a go before having to resize partitions etc try a live CD distro such as knoppix. It boots straight from the CD with no ...
Summary: the thing I forgot when first trying to install linux was to make space for it. Linux needs a good 2 GB to be completely comfortable and have lots of...
Summary: Well well well, as always, the hard-core anti-linux/BSDers have not idea what they're doing. As far as I can tell, that's the only reason someone wou...
Summary: First of all, dump this winlinux thing. Most distributions come with a partition resizer like partition magic. Caldera is a good example. Mandrake7 do...
Summary: Well you should shrink your windows partition to leave about 2 gigs free for linux if you want everything (GUI, Browser, etc). You can do this with F...
Summary: Hey guys...my plans were to install multiple OS on my two hard drives, including red hat. So, I chose to purchase system commander 7 after trying the ...
Summary: in your situation I would, if you still have dos or something installed, copy over a partition resizer (I hear partion magic(sp?) is good). as well a...
Summary: I have copied Partition Resizer onto a floppy as per instructions. At least I presume it has been done correctly. DOS doesn't recognise it at all, but...
Summary: Boot the first CD continue with the install until you get to the partitionning resize your windows XP partition so that you have enought unpartitionne...
Summary: That directory you downloaded MIGHT work w/tweaking. There's an ISOLINUX directory, which is good, because that's the Linux El Torito (bootable CD) bo...
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