topic Re: splitting windows partition for linux installation in Operating System - Linux

splitting windows partition for linux installation

Chakravarthi — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 06:51:37 GMT

Hi all,

i have 80GB HDD installed with windows, i want to free 40GB and install linux,

please suggest any freeware tool

regards
chakri

Re: splitting windows partition for linux installation

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 07:37:57 GMT

There is a linux distribution that can be used to boot and re-partion windows. I did it on a laptop.

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/knoppix/knoppix_tco.htm

Knoppix can be used, there are also other distributions.

Process:

Defrag windows, make srue there is a large, contiguous free space area.

Boot of Linux, reduce the Windows partition.

Boot off chosen Linux, let grub be your partition manager.

At boot, you will get to decidde between windows and linux.

SEP

Re: splitting windows partition for linux installation

Chakravarthi — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 07:43:47 GMT

any windows related application which you know
regards
chakri

Re: splitting windows partition for linux installation

Dave Falloon — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 15:15:54 GMT

Its not free but it works well and its relatively cheap, you could use partition magic.

--Dave

Re: splitting windows partition for linux installation

kcpant — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 23:59:44 GMT

Hi Chakravarthi,

You can use fips ( it's included in utilities folder of older versions of RHL CD, otherwise you can download it from http://www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips/
). procedure is same for all utilities- clean up the disk through windows, defrag it, boot through fips floppy, resize the windows partitiion, and then use the freed space for linux.

regards

Re: splitting windows partition for linux installation

Chakravarthi — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 00:36:42 GMT

thanks for the suggestions

Re: splitting windows partition for linux installation

Chakravarthi — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 00:37:01 GMT

thanks