[TriLUG] Laptop issue: resizing partition

[Jason Tower]

i think FIPS is what you want...

On Wednesday 04 December 2002 14:30, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Greetings-
>
> I've got a new (to me) Vaio laptop on which I want to dual-boot Win98 and
> debian. I can boot to the debian install CD, but what I'd *like* to do is
> resize the partition on the hard drive first so I can install debian
> without having to reinstall windows.  Unfortunately, debian's boot cd
> doesn't have parted on it, so I can't go that route.
>
> I downloaded Acronis's "DiskEditor" as a free Windows disk partition
> editor, but I'm a bit scared of it - there's no obvious way to simply
> change the size of the partition. I can edit begin and end cylinder, head,
> and sector, but I don't know the right way to calculate where these should
> begin and end for a, say, 3GB partition.
>
> Has anyone used this before, or can anyone suggest an alternative
> direction to go to resize the partition? (gnu's parted boot disk doesn't
> work because this thing has a USB floppy.)
>
> Thanks.
>
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