Very Computer

I want to resize my DOS primary partition down to 350Mb so I can
have some room to install Linux.

You would think that this would be an easy task:
 - just delete the primary partition using DOS's FDISK program,
 - create a new primary partition of 350Mb,
 - set the new partition active,
 - exit FDISK & reboot,
 - and finally run FORMAT C: /s

*BUT* after creating the 350Mb partition, and rebooting, I find
that my newly created 350Mb DOS partition has suddenly become 504Mb again!!
It looks like the boot process has resized my DOS partition to its maximum(?)!

Non of this makes any sense.
If anyone has any helpful suggestions or solutions, I would be very
happy to hear from them!

Many thanks in advance
Aris Balatsos

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Here is some info on my system if it will help:      

-MS-DOS:     Version 6.20
-Hard disk:  Fujitsu IDE, 1024 cyl, 63 sectors/cyl, 16 heads, 512 byte sectors
             Size given by BIOS is 504Mb
-BIOS:       Award (dated April 26/94) - has no EIDE support
-Controller: VESA Local Bus IDE with a Winbond chipset- recent(Spring 1995).
             - My Hard Disk is master on IDE channel 0
             - My Panasonic quad CD-574B cd-rom is master on IDE channel 1
-MB:         Intel 486DX2/66, 8Mb RAM, 128Kb L2 cache              
-Other:      SB-16,14.4K internal modem.

really be interested in hearing from them.

Quote:> You would think that this would be an easy task:
>  - just delete the primary partition using DOS's FDISK program,
>  - create a new primary partition of 350Mb,
>  - set the new partition active,
>  - exit FDISK & reboot,
>  - and finally run FORMAT C: /s
> *BUT* after creating the 350Mb partition, and rebooting, I find
> that my newly created 350Mb DOS partition has suddenly become 504Mb again!!
> It looks like the boot process has resized my DOS partition to its maximum(?)!

  Gertjan.

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