On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD wrote:
> When I first installed RH5.0, I could not get it to complete the install with my
>existing DOS partitions, so I deleted them since I really did not need them at the
>time. I want to now go back and use a small portion of my 2.5 gig drive for a
>DOS/Win95
partition.
>
> Before I go mucking with Druid, is is possible/advisable to go into Druid and add a
>partition, since I made most of my partitions growable (ie., can they shrink as well
>as grow..?) Can I then make it bootable..?
First of all PLEASE keep your line lengths less than about 72 characters
per line. It is very difficult to read otherwise. :(
IMHO Disk Droid's growable partitions are misleading. Once you format the
disk they do NOT change size. As for making the partition bootable you do not
need to, use lilo or if you have a lot of money to waste system Commander.
I have never used System Commander but the people with money to burn say
it is easier to set up than lilo.
You need unpartitioned/unformatted disk space, do you have any on your
existing disks? If not you will have to either backup a partition and
resize it, get something like partition magic and resize one or add
another disk. You can use lilo to boot DOS/windoze partitions from just
about anywhere. It might take a little work though.
If you have empty disk space then it is a piece of cake. Just use DOS/windoze
fdisk to create a primary dos partition, boot from a floppy and format it
with the system files installed, make the entries in lilo.conf, rerun lilo
and boot the machine to DOS, Install windoze and you are in business.
If you are not sure of the lilo.conf entries tell me where the windoze
partition is (ie: hda5) and I can help you with the lilo entries.
If you have lilo installed on the MBR of the 1st disk (hda) and you install
windoze it will overwrite lilo. To keep this from happening put it on the boot
partition of the 1st disk (hopefully hda1).
Hope this helps.
......Tom "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] for you are crunchy and good with ketchup."
Unix IS user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
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