hey ...
you cant resize your HD with out using tools ... too bad there aint a button "resize!" ... you CAN play with resizing partitions on the linux installers ... i dont know if you can set them to fat though
(fat is the standard windows filesystem)
or you can use fdisk ... which aint complicated ... just seems so because its in dos
ive never used partition magic ... but ive heard that it resized in windows with scroll bars ... not sure tho ...
most of nix distros are pretty much the same ... only a couple things differ ... you can file through your fat filesystems (windows drives) no prob there ...
for you GF2 ... there shouldnt be a problem ...
hope my help has been of use ...
Lep!