Changing Hd

rilians · 10-16-2003, 09:24 AM

I am running MD 9.1 on a partitioned HD with windows ME..Would like to repartition the drive to have 1 partition with linux with out loosing my setting on my curent linux...Any help?

Thanks

trickykid · 10-16-2003, 09:50 AM

Are you installing a new drive or wanting to just repartition your existing drive? I'm confused cause your title says one thing and your question states another...

rilians · 10-16-2003, 10:01 AM

Sorry for the confusion.....not changing drive but going from 2 partitions to 1.

Mad Merlin · 10-16-2003, 10:14 AM

Just boot the first Mandrake CD, hit install (but don't go through the whole install), just go through to the partitioning, remove the windows partition, and size up your linux partitions as desired. When you're done, reboot and you're done.

trickykid · 10-16-2003, 10:24 AM

No need to use the Mandrake install cd...

I would suggest just creating the Windows partition as a Linux, and then mount it, either moving existing files over or making a new directory to store data on, maybe move your users home directory to the new partition where Windows use to reside on, etc.

Its at times good to have multiple parititons when using Linux.

Mad Merlin · 10-16-2003, 10:39 AM

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Originally posted by trickykid
No need to use the Mandrake install cd...

I would suggest just creating the Windows partition as a Linux, and then mount it, either moving existing files over or making a new directory to store data on, maybe move your users home directory to the new partition where Windows use to reside on, etc.

Its at times good to have multiple parititons when using Linux.

This is also possible, but you can do more from the install cd, as none of the partitions are mounted, so you're free to move/resize. Unless I'm missing something, you can't unmount the / partition when you're booted normally. I suspect he'd probably want to change the sizes of partitions either way, as the previous windows partition is probably bigger or smaller than he'd like for /home or wherever he might mount it.

rilians · 10-16-2003, 10:57 AM

HI

My patrtions are equal sizes..since I will be doing this should I make 1 partition( change the windows to linux) /home...I already have a swap partition....so

1 partition is /, 1 is /home and 1 swap

trickykid · 10-16-2003, 11:01 AM

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Originally posted by rilians
HI

My patrtions are equal sizes..since I will be doing this should I make 1 partition( change the windows to linux) /home...I already have a swap partition....so

1 partition is /, 1 is /home and 1 swap

That's what I would do and suggest as the majority of the time you will store your files in your own users directories in /home, so creating a new partition will only give you that much space. Also in the future you can actually preserve the data there if you have to reinstall for some reason, not reinstalling over the /home partition, etc.

rilians · 10-16-2003, 11:11 AM

Thanks to all for your help.

trickykid · 10-16-2003, 11:16 AM

No problem and don't hesitate to come back and ask if you run into anymore questions/problems and so on..

Regards.