Grex Micros Conference Item 203

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Creating a new partition

Apr 9 18:48 UTC 1999

I am trying to install Linux onto my pc .. i already have windows on one
partition and would like to add another partition.. when i use cfdisk or fdisk
from linux and try to creat another partition i can not for some reason.
if anyone knows how i can go by doing so then please leave a response ..
thank you very much and have a nice day! :P

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valkyrie

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Apr 10 14:58 UTC 1999

If you already have windows installed, you need to run something like
FIPS (on the linux cd) or Norton's Disk Magic.  I think it's Norton's.
Anyways, you can't just make a partition where there is already one, 
you have to shrink the existing one.

Your other option is to wipe the drive clean, create two (three if you
want a swap partition) partitions, install linux into the second one,
then install windows into the first one.

I usually get a nice clean installation this way, only having to reboot
once more with my boot disks and run lilo again.

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