Subject: Re: Installing Linux w/o destroying existing partitions
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 23:35:59 GMT
In article <1992Aug14.193838.16110@nas.nasa.gov> chiu@wk211.nas.nasa.gov (Ing-Tsau Chiu) writes:
|Wonder if there's any way to install Linux w/o destroying existing
|partitions. (Sorry if this is an faq.)
Yes. You must non-destructively repartition the disk.
Basically, this involves shortening a DOS partition
(both in the DOS boot record, and in the partition table),
after defragmenting it and getting all of the used stuff out of
the way, and making a new Linux partition in the old space.
Watch out for logical sector size != 512 bytes, like on
Disk Manager partitions.
It's a little messy, and unless you can be REAL comfortable
with the structures involved, you probably don't want to do it.
--
Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows,
IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but neither is as bad as AT&T. Boycott AT&T, and let them know how you feel.
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