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Re: basic question on splitting partitions



~> 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."

I'm not sure if there's something I'm misunderstanding here... you
already have your HDD partitioned into two, and you have windoze
installed into it (which you want to keep).  If that's correct, I can't
see what you need fips for (unless you want to reclaim some space from
your first partition).

All you have to do is move any data from d: to c:, leaving thus the
second partition empty, and then install Linux in the second partition.
The Linux setup will take you through the right steps (including
repartitioning the second drive to create both Linux swap part. and
Linux native part.)

Regards

Horacio
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