[Nottingham] Which distribution?

[Robert Hart]

On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 16:17 +0000, Ron Wilton wrote:
>  
> 1) I realised that I'd typed Windows 95 SE, when I should have typed
> Windows 98 SE - can I assume that this does make any difference to
> what you said?

Yes, as long as the filesystem is FAT (and not NTFS) which will happen
for any machine with win95, 98, me, but is an option for other versions
of windows.
 
> 2) You mentioned the difference between 'reformatting' and 'resizing
> partitions'. I assume that I only have one partition on my harddrive,
> therefore am I right in thinking that that I'm unable to 'resize
> partitions' and would need to reformat the whole drive if I'm to run
> both Linux and Windows off the same HD?

Programs such as "parted" can be used to resize an existing partition in
order to make space on a drive for a second partition. Some
distributions (I think) include parted in the installer, so it will
guide you through it, but in others, you'd have to do it manually. You
will need enough free space, and you would probably need to defrag your
drive first.

Rob

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Robert Hart <enxrah at nottingham.ac.uk>
University of Nottingham


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