Re: Large hard drives and debian

[Alastair Donlon <nospam [at] netsoc.ucd.ie>]

On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 06:52:06PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> _This_ is the hard part. Since the normal way to fix any Windows
> problem is to reinstall Windows, and Windows likes to mess with the
> hard drive at installation (and sometimes requires a disk reformat,
> thus I have heard[1]), you could have problems. Also, I don't know
> whether the free partition resizing utility handles Windows95/98/NT
> partitions yet; you probably want to get Partition Magic or something
> like that if you've absolutely got to have a Windows partition.
>

FIPS works with Win95 partitions. You have to turn off virtual memory
first though, and that can cause problems when you're booting after
you've resized your partition.

A.D.

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