splitting windows partition for linux installation

[Chakravarthi]

Hi all,


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

please suggest any freeware tool

regards
chakri

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[Chakravarthi]

any windows related application which you know
regards
chakri

[Dave Falloon]

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

--Dave

[kcpant · Accepted solution]

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

[Chakravarthi]

thanks for the suggestions

[Chakravarthi]

thanks