Re: Help required

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Steve Tickle wrote:

> Before I totally wreck everything I thought I'd ask advice. My initial
> thoughts are to remove the said 2Gig partition using the EZ-Drive
> install disk. Any thoughts/comments?

Yep, sounds like a fine idea to me. Use DOS fdisk to get rid of the last
partition (or some other tool if you like graphical interfaces ;), and
don't repartition it. So you should have 2x2Gb partitions, with 2Gb of
unpartitioned space at the end of the drive. Then install Linux, something
like SuSE or Mandrake ;), and tell it to use the free space. Most modern
distros will automagically partition the free space for you, in a fiarly
sensible manner. Everything else should still work ;)

Cheers,

Alex.

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