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by **Lane Giardin** » Thu, 06 Nov 1997 04:00:00

Someone enlighten the ignorant, please.

I just purchased a P-II 266 with a 6.4 SCSI HD. Win95 came pre-loaded. I
would like to repartition the drive for both Win95 and Linux (what version
I'm not quite sure, and that shows you just how shiny my beginner's badge
is).

Is this possible? What is the easiest way to go about it?

Thanks to anyone who can help me on this.

Lane

by **Everard Brow** » Thu, 06 Nov 1997 04:00:00

> Someone enlighten the ignorant, please.

> I just purchased a P-II 266 with a 6.4 SCSI HD. Win95 came pre-loaded. I
> would like to repartition the drive for both Win95 and Linux (what version

Most (if not all) Linux distributions come with FIPS this should allow
you to recalaim part of your disk for the Linux partition/installation.
You only have to defrag your disk before using it.

I've tried it (it's pretty straight forward), with no problems.

You'll need around 50Mb - 2Gb depending on how much of the OS you
require and what other applications you want to add on, eg. X-Windows,
databases, web server etc.

Hope this helps...

by **Jamie Hunte** » Fri, 07 Nov 1997 04:00:00

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> Someone enlighten the ignorant, please.

> I just purchased a P-II 266 with a 6.4 SCSI HD. Win95 came
> pre-loaded. I
> would like to repartition the drive for both Win95 and Linux (what
> version
> I'm not quite sure, and that shows you just how shiny my beginner's
> badge
> is).

Good Idea!

Quote:> Is this possible? What is the easiest way to go about it?

You need a program called "fips" I have attached it to this message
(I think it is free to distibute? I only have this exe - do fips.doc as
mentioned
at startup [you'll see what I mean]).

This little program can create new partions from the unused space on
thedrive.

done!

Quote:> Thanks to anyone who can help me on this.

> Lane

Good Luck

Jamie

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by **Nathan Johnso** » Fri, 07 Nov 1997 04:00:00

> > I just purchased a P-II 266 with a 6.4 SCSI HD. Win95 came
> > pre-loaded. I
> You need a program called "fips" I have attached it to this message
> (I think it is free to distibute? I only have this exe - do fips.doc as
> mentioned
> at startup [you'll see what I mean]).

> This little program can create new partions from the unused space on
> thedrive.

Being a newbie myself, please excuse me if I'm totally wrong. However, it
was my understanding that FIPS didn't work with FAT32 drives, which this
new computer is probably running with Win95. The reason that I imply this
is because I saw somewhere talk of updating FIPS to work with FAT32 drives,
and that it hadn't been done yet. Maybe I have old info, or maybe FIPS
doesn't care what file systems you're using. If this is the case, and you
know for sure, please respond to me, as I have FAT32 and was afraid to use
FIPS. I manually formatted my HD to get my partitions set up using FDISK,
but I would like to change them now.

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