[techtalk] Re: Caldera Open Linux eDesktop 2.4 Installation

[Conor Daly]

On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 07:38:01PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Daniel Manrique thought:
> > You have three options:  1) Actually beg, borrow, buy, or steal a copy of 
> > Partition Magic or any other equivalent program, 2) add a second hard drive 
> > and install Linux on that, leaving your Windows drive intact.  I highly 
> > recommend this option, as there is little or no chance of destroying your 
> > Windows stuff this way, or 3) Use a distribution of Linux that can install 
> > into your existing FAT32 partition without having a partition of it's own 
> > (i.e.: Red Hat Linux 7.1).
> 
> 4) get a copy of GNU parted and use that to resize your partition.
> 
> Parted is less than friendly but has proved very effective for me.
> 
> As always, do make backups of your vital information because those
> programs are not foolproof. I've actually had Partition Magic itself
> losing all my data. Good thang i had it backed up :)
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/
> 
> The easiest way to get parted up and running is by downloading the
> bootdisk from their ftp area. 

Or try fips.exe which comes with lots of distros.  It's a bit safer than
some others since it *only* rewrites the partition table while some other
programs try to modify cluster sizes across the new partitions.  You get
to save the partition table to a bootable floppy first in case of failure.
You'll find it on any Redhat / slackware CD or in the "dosutils"
directory on any of their mirrors.

As for your Lucent winmodem, there are drivers available for some Lucent
modems.  Have a look at linmodems.org for details.

Conor
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