At 02:45 PM 6/17/2002, you wrote:
Fred,
A couple. Buy Partition Magic which works under Windows to resize your WinMe partition. From what I've read on the box it also works with Linux. The comfort factor of working with a Windows product is there.
Partition Magic (borrowed from a friend of mine) just didn't work. I'm on Windows ME, and it wanted to go to DOS mode to do certain things, and it kept giving an error when it tried to do anything. By fiddling with the "Expert" options I managed to make the installer think the disk was a FAT32 partition. I more or less guessed at the size of the Linux partitions. From there I managed to shrink the Windows partition by 10 gig. This was a somewhat terrifying situation since the disk had an error at the end of shrinking the partition, and when I rebooted, I had *nothing*. No Windows no nothing. Very bad. Rebooting with the Suse disk 1, resumed the Linux installation without much problems. It gave suggestions for a swap and linux partitions, (but no boot partition for some reason. Is that ok?). I guessed at the options for the various Linux partitions and I seem to have guessed correctly since I now have a swap and linux(Reiser FS) partitions. I do not seem to have a boot partition for some reason. LILO gives me different boot options, but I can't figure out how to choose one over the other. I'll have to check the doc for LILO obviously. Using the information in the O'Reilly book, "Running Linux", I made the machine boot into Windows as a default. On to post-installation issues! Latest problem is that in KDE I don't have a mouse pointer, so its hard to choose anything or get rid of the clutter. How do I configure that, in console mode? Ciao Fred Schiff (fschiff@mindspring.com)