On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 08:35, Jereme Hancock wrote:
I am a complete newbie to the Linux world. I have a Dell desktop with Windows XP. I would like to set up a dual boot system. I have PartitionMagic so I can shrink the XP partition, but I am really not sure how to do it. Can someone please walk me through the steps to shrink the XP partition and set up the partition for Linux and install Linux. Thanks in advance, Jereme
First, if you are new to the list welcome to the wonderful world of linux and this list. You will find a treasure trove of info here. I can't help with shrinking your XP partition as it should be fairly straight forward using PartitionMagic. At a minimum you will need two partitions for linux. One should be about two times the size of your ram, used for swap, and the other for your install. There are differing options on having other partitions for other filesystems such as /home and /boot, but to each their own. Make sure you backup any data in your XP partition before resizing. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2) * PLEASE only reply to the list *