[TriLUG] Laptop issue: resizing partition

[Andrew Perrin]

Thanks! Looks good.

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Jason Tower wrote:

> i think FIPS is what you want...
> 
> On Wednesday 04 December 2002 14:30, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> > Greetings-
> >
> > I've got a new (to me) Vaio laptop on which I want to dual-boot Win98 and
> > debian. I can boot to the debian install CD, but what I'd *like* to do is
> > resize the partition on the hard drive first so I can install debian
> > without having to reinstall windows.  Unfortunately, debian's boot cd
> > doesn't have parted on it, so I can't go that route.
> >
> > I downloaded Acronis's "DiskEditor" as a free Windows disk partition
> > editor, but I'm a bit scared of it - there's no obvious way to simply
> > change the size of the partition. I can edit begin and end cylinder, head,
> > and sector, but I don't know the right way to calculate where these should
> > begin and end for a, say, 3GB partition.
> >
> > Has anyone used this before, or can anyone suggest an alternative
> > direction to go to resize the partition? (gnu's parted boot disk doesn't
> > work because this thing has a USB floppy.)
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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> > Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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