All,
I have a manager at work who has expressed a desire to install 'Linux' on his home desktop pc.
He has Windows XP installed on his 'D:' drive and his 'C:' drive is bare. its probably easier at this stage to reply to my own post, because the balance has shifted somewhat when all the good suggestions were
On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 18:51, pete atkinson wrote: proposed. What we know as hda1 (his c:) used to be win98 and hda2 (d:\) is XP. hdb1-hdb5 are data drives e:\ thro to i:\ when the install was running through its routine, all partition space on both drives was full so it was asking to shtink one of the two partitions on hda He is reluctant to reformat the c: (hda1) as it will shift all his drive letters down by a degree.. (will it ?). So he has agreed to re-arrange datawise his e-i: drives freeing a good 5gb (which I have suggested he uses fdisk to 'delete' He will then see if SuSE install will then identify the free space at the end of hdbx to install on. So... apologies if I have led you all up the proverbial garden path, but I was working on the information to hand.... I will report back as to the success of this plan... rgds Pete