I would like to repartition my linux operated hard drive to set aside
about 5 gigs of a 30-gig laptop to accept an installation Microsoft xp
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hello dmoore116-ga
try fdisk or cfdisk commands
://www.google.com/search?q=fdisk
://www.google.com/search?q=cfdisk
hope that will help

Use efdisk utility to partition ur drive its very easy to use and fast
to partition.  download at
http://www.masterbooter.com/programs/mrboot32.zip which is bundled at
"masterbooter"

MasterBooter is a boot manager which can be used to install and
maintain more operating systems on a PC. System names, passwords are
customizable. You can set the delay time, default system and beeping.
It also has FAT hiding support, partition protecting from unauthorized
access and customizable menu colors. Supports nearly all known
operating systems, like Win9x/ME/NT/2000/XP, DOS, Linux, OS/2, BeOS,
Solaris, FreeBSD and more.

Boot with your win98 startup disk. after booting to drive run efdisk..
heres also the commands for efdisk..
heres the documentation for efdisk..
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/UserInfo/Resources/Hardware/IBMp690/IBM/usr/share/man/info/en_US/a_doc_lib/cmds/aixcmds2/efdisk.htm


hope that help also..

stalkerjay-ga

assume that you booted in your win98 startup disk .. type efdisk

I would suggest you burn a cd using this url.

http://www.sysresccd.org/

Hi,

I would suggest you get a copy of Powerquest Partition Magic. Once you
got hold of one, install it on a spare PC and create a bootable floppy
with the Partition Magic exe files on it.
There should be an option on the Partition Magic software to create
these floppy disks, if I'm not mistaken they are called Rescue Disks
on the options.

or if you can just borrow a copy of these disks from a friend it's
much better and it'll save you money as well.

Once you have these disks, boot your PC with the disks and you should
be able to resize partitions on your har disks without doing any
damage on your current partition.

Yes, Partition Magic will recognise any type of partition or file
system and it will allow you to resize, create or add partitions to
your existing setup without doing any damage. The later the version
the better and more feature.


Regards,
168c

Follow up.

Partition Magic also has the feature to create a boot menu for multi
operating system and it's called Boot Magic.

Regards,
18c

The answer you seek depends on whether or not you want to keep the
data in your 30 GB hard drive and what partitions you currently have.
If you do not care to keep the information in your hard drive, the
simple answer would be to use cfdisk (usually `cfdisk /dev/hda`
[assuming your hard drive is the primary master IDE device]) to wipe
all the partition. After you have completed that, make 3 partitions at
minimal. A FAT32/NTFS partition, a Linux Swap partition, and a Linux
Partition. Click write and you're ready to install linux and windows
(it is recommended to install windows first.).

If you have a multi-partitioned hard drive already (ie. /home, /etc,
/usr, etc. has their own partition), you may transfer the information
from the partition and delete only that partition to reuse for
windows.

If you don't have a multi-partitioned hard drive, and you want to keep
your data, you will most likely have to use partition magic or another
similar software. Otherwise, you would have to back up ALL your data,
re-partition, then transfer back all your data.

Hope this answers your question.

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