On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:37:31 -0500, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hblennox wrote: > > I don't have Partition Magic :( > > How does that creating the swap-partition work ? > > Do I have to create an extra partition (thus it being 3 partitions on the first drive) or will the linux partition be cut during installation? > > The linux distribution can partition the unused space. All you needed > was to partition the space for windows. You could then do the rest of > the partitioning with FC and its partitioning tools that are in the program. > > When you install Linux, it should detect the already installed Windows > version and add a choice in the bootloader. > > From there, you should be able to get the partitionig scheme that you > desire. > > No partitioning programs outside the distro are actually needed. > > Jim Jim is right. You certainly do not need Partition Magic, though it sounds like a nice program. If you want to manually make your partitions, I suggest using Linux fdisk. You can use a live CD, I recommend System Rescue CD, or Tom's RTBT is a good floppy disk distro. fdisk is rather "old school" (for lack of a better term), but it should be fairly easy to figure out what to do, if you know what you want to do. Assuming you don't have anything on either disk right now (or at least nothing you want to keep), then you can boot up your live CD and use fdisk to at least create a partition for Windows. Then you can install Windows in that partition. Then you can install Fedora. You can either create your own paritions using fdisk (either beforehand, or by using CTRL+ALT+F2 (or F1?, one of those function keys) during the install), or Fedora can do everything for you. There is also a "psuedo-manual" option with using Disk Driud (the graphical partitioner) but it doesn't give you full control. If you do use fdisk, use Disk Druid with Manual partitioning to set the mount points up and format. Now, if you have Windows installed already and want to keep what you have, that is a completely different story. I'm working on a webpage right now that describes this process. It's actually about my experiences with Linux on my Compaq R3000Z AMD64 laptop, but the info about resizing an NTFS (hmm, you didn't say which Windows, I assume XP or 2k with an NTFS filesystem) partition. If this is the way you want to go, I'll get you a link (and hopefully finish that section up a little more :)). Jonathan
