[TriLUG] Partitioning for n-booting

[Mike Mueller]

I partitioned the hard disk on my laptop using DOS FDISK.  I created a FAT32 
partition about 6GB and formatted it. The remainder of the disk was left 
unpartitioned. 

I popped in the Toshiba recovery disk and expected it to load into the small 
partition I created.  Instead, the dang thing re-partitioned and re-formatted 
the disk into an NTFS partition and ran the Symantec Ghost restore program.

I think I am stuck with having to buy Partition Magic so I can reduce the 
NTFS partition so I can load GNU/Linux.  

The NTFS partition is not well handled by non-Partition Magic 
re-partitioners.  The recovery disk is not a real XP installer so I don't 
have options for re-installing.

Am I missing something?
-- 
Mike Mueller
324881 (08/20/2003)
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