basic question on splitting partitions
Sorry if this question is too basic. I've been following several
newsgroups for a while and haven't seen this situation addressed.
I have a 3.2 GB hard drive and 16-bit addressing, so it's partitioned
into a C drive of about 2 GB and a D drive for the rest of the space.
I'd like to keep Windows 95 on the C drive while I work on installing
Linux on D.
>From reading the installation instructions it sounded like I should
create a Swap partition within "D." So I created a system floppy with
the FIPS directory on it. Upon execution it displayed the partition
table showing partition 1 consisting of 2047 MB and partition 2
consisting of 1047 MB. It asked which partition to split, and I chose
"2." The resulting error message said: "Can't split extended
partitions. FIPS can not yet split extended DOS partitions."
What should I do? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Peter Christensen
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