repartitioning hard disk

[stefan goeman <stefan.goeman@siemens.atea.be>]

Hello,

I want to install linux on my PC at home. Now, I run Win98 2nd Ed. on a 
FAT32 filesystem. 
I only have one big partion (i.e. the C drive). I want to create more 
partitions in a "safe" manner and
I am not sure how to do this.

I also don't want to buy Partition Magic so I was thinking of using the 
fips tool (anybody tried this?).
I have some small questions.

1) First I should defragment the C-drive (under Win98) to get everything 
in the beginning of the disk.
I have read something about files that can not be removed. How do I find 
out that I do not have such files
at the end of the disk and what can I do about it?

2) I plan to cut the drive in 2 parts with fips. The filesystem on the 
second partition is also FAT32 or will
it be FAT16? Can I simply use fdisk (from linux) to change this fs to 
ext2 and then create more linux partitions 
from this drive? 

3) Now my drive letters are 
   C: hard disk
   D: CD-ROM
   E: zip-drive
 If I reboot and Win98 starts (I hope) what will happen with these drive 
letters? (P.S.: I have not changed 
the 2nd partition to ext2)
 


Greetings,

Stefan.


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