From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Beolach Subject: Re: LILO configuration Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 20:39:08 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4047F65C.2070502@comcast.net> References: <3.0.16.20040304224818.480f894c@mail1.abac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3.0.16.20040304224818.480f894c@mail1.abac.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: David Tiefenbrunn Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Tiefenbrunn wrote: | Hi, all. | | I bought a (used) computer that came with SuSe linux installed. I would | like to set it up so I can boot either Linux or WIN98 (I know, yuck, but I | still have some stuff that I need to use there) | | The HD is currently set up as one 20gig partition. Can I split it or do I | have to start all over from the beginning? Of course, I don't have the | linux install CD. | There is a program called GNU Parted that should allow you to resize the partition, depending on what filesystem it was formatted with. See it's homepage at for more details. After resizing the existing partition, create a new partition with the free space & install windows there. Note that installing windows will overwrite the master boot record, making the Linux partition unbootable, so make sure you have a boot floppy created before installing windows. After installing windows, boot to Linux with the floppy boot disk, and reconfigure /etc/lilo.conf to boot either the Linux or Windows partition, and reinstall lilo on the MBR with /sbin/lilo. Hope this helps, Conway S. Smith -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAR/ZcGL3AU+cCPDERAqusAJ4wlFJD7IoPp5nclH3z4u41jLIdKQCg6jth aub9iUPTgm6jTQNjKfv8/j0= =P0DO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs