good partitioning program needed

[Kristoffer Gustafsson]

Hello!
do you think that the fdisk can partition even the 200 gb drive I've gotten 
here?

/Kristoffer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Heim" <jheim at wisc.edu>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: good partitioning program needed


> I've created about a million dual boot PCs over the past year or so and I 
> always partition the HD with fdisk first. I boot with an oralux CD.
>
> I don't know about Win 98 but I can tell you that Windows XP will slurp up 
> the entire HD unless you create a second partition. ie. Just creating a 
> partition for Windows that takes up half the disk won't do.
> 1. Boot oralux
> 2. run fdisk ex: fdisk /dev/hda
> 3. Create primary partition 1, change type to B (fat32), make active
> 4. Create partion 2, make type 83 (linux)
> 5. Save changes
>
> Now you can install Windows into partion 1 and linux into partition 2.
>
>
> At 07:00 PM 5/29/2006, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
>>Hello!
>>
>>I need a good program to partition my harddrive.
>>I've gotten a 200 gb harddrive, and I want to install windows 98 and linux 
>>on the same computer.
>>
>>I'm using fedora core 3.
>>So, what partitioning tools are good?
>>
>>I've tried disk druid, but it doesn't seem very accesible o me.
>>
>>Since I plan to install win 98 first I don't have linux at all, so I think 
>>that I'll have to do with some dos or windows based program.
>>
>>Also, When installing fedora core 3 partition errors are much more common 
>>than when using fedora 2.
>>
>>Have any of you noticed this?
>>
>>/Kristoffer
>>
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