[plug] partitioning

[Bill Pickett]

In the RH 7.0 install I was under the impression that fips was invoked
during the custom install process anyway.  This however will not resize an
existing DOS (windoze, FAT, whatever) partition to free up space for a linux
partition. Probaly the same though with the RH 7.1 one release.

Perhaps if you can resourse such a move, wack another HDD in and run it from
there ?

bp



-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Muller [mailto:mullerc at iinet.net.au]
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 12:49 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] partitioning


Fips is manual. I have actually never used it, as I have several harddrives
in my computer and did a total new install of everything about half a year
ago so that I could run it all. This way also my harddrives were configured
in a way that I wanted. I don't really know of any other partitioning tool

Christian

At 11:08 01/08/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>Actually, I use Mandrake a lot, and at work its all older redhat.  But
>in this case, someone who is doing linux at Tafe asked a some questions
>on the later RH7.1 which I am not familiar with.  I know there are
>programs like fips (and others), but are they available during the
>install like Mandrake, or will it be a manual operation?
>
>BillK
>
>On 01 Aug 2001 10:37:53 +0800, John Knight wrote:
> > If you've got a mate with Mandrake, borrow it from him and use Diskdrake
> > (I think that's what it's called). It's a nice, friendly GUI that'll do
> the
> > job nicely.
> >
> > I live in the hills if you're in that area and want to borrow it.
> >
> > >
> > >I think you have to use a program called "fips" for this
> > >
> > >Christian
> > >
> > >At 08:42 01/08/2001 +0800, you wrote:
> > >>Question I have been asked: can the redhat install make room for linux
> > >>(i.e., repartition) on a windoze disk that is currently allocated as
one
> > >>full partition into windoze and a number of linux (ext2, swap etc)
> > >>without destroying the current windoze data?
> > >>
> > >>I have always had a separate partition to do this in the past, so have
> > >>never had to worry about it ...
> > >>
> > >>BillK
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> >
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