I'm looking to dual boot my laptop with RH/XP Pro. I was going to use partition magic to partition the hardrive into ext3 and NTFS.(this is what I should do right?). Well anywayz partition magic is a little too pricey for my wallet. Is there any other programs out there that do the similar task? If all else fails, I can use fdisk.
Thanks
Oh and if you guys have any tips or things to watch out for with my current project, let me know, I would appreciate it.
Fusion
RH's disk druid does a nice job on partitioning. :D ... And there are thousands of opinions on how to partition it. I think in another thread I had put a link to the RH manual, which has nice suggestions on how to partition (visit Red Hat's site and look at documentation -- they talk about how to partition).
Otherwise, you might find a free tool here: http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.ht...search=+Go%21+
I think i found a site that you are looking for if you want to dual boot.
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~c...stallation.php
>Hope that helps.
This a link to a freeware program
http://www.webattack.com/downloadfin...vices&action=s
Sorry never use nothing but fdisk always works for me! and maybe a calculator
Bootit is great, it fits on a bootdisk, and it will delete, create, or RESIZE all types of partitions. including fat32, ntfs, unix and linux partitions as well as a few diagnostic tools.. it asks you to install it on the hard drive everytime you boot it, but you dont have to, and if you do, it is shareware, and i think it expires.. I just keep a bootdisk of it and use it whenever i need it, without installing it.. just extract the zip file to a folder and run "bootitng.exe" with a floppy in the drive to make a boot disk, then boot using that.
I was going to ask the same question as fusion, and I was going to use Ranish. But i've realised this does NOT work with XP (NTFS Partitions) so i'll give Bootit a try:)
YOu can mail me for a copy of partition magic not the retail version but
one which runs in dos mode and infact is the rescue disk of pm6.0
It has the same functionality as the windows version...
[email protected]
you should be able to download it of kazaa if you have it if not goto
www.kazaa.com
C’mmon guys, lets not break the copyright law. This is a security site. If Partition magic is expensive, we always have nice people who give us the freeware.
Well the following site offers a freeware that does the job. It is a boot master and it also comes with free partitioning tool.
http://www.xosl.org/
:p Dr_Evil
There was another thread like this a little while ago, about resizing an existing slice though, but I suggested Fips b/c I thought PM cost money, but someone negged me and said ->>
Partition without losin...
02-22-2003 09:32 PM Partition magic is free at download.com
I don't know never looked into it (I use fdisk too, primarily), but apparently this person was convinced that they had found it there. :)
You should definitely learn to use FDISK. It will give you a warm feeling
of accomplishment and self-esteem.
You are now one of the elite.
:cool:
Xosl is actually a bootloader. It comes with Ranish though, but if I'm correct Ranish doesn't support NTFS.Quote:
Originally posted here by Dr_Evil
C’mmon guys, lets not break the copyright law. This is a security site. If Partition magic is expensive, we always have nice people who give us the freeware.
Well the following site offers a freeware that does the job. It is a boot master and it also comes with free partitioning tool.
http://www.xosl.org/
:p Dr_Evil
Isn't there a shareware or trial version of partitionmagic ? If you only want to do this one thing, you might try that ;). NTFS and ext3 aren't really rare filesystems, so most decent partition tools should support them. For the unusual stuff I use fdisk, altough it can get a bit sloppy. Partitionmagic is cool because nothing can go wrong really, it does everything for you and much easier (and faster because you have to do less) then fdisk.
Well the one question that hasn't been asked is, are you trying to resize an existing partition or is this a new install system?
If this is an existing system that you want to resize, then yes you have to use a partition resize program, but if you are installing a new system, then all you have to do is install XP, and set the partition sizes you need for it, leaving the partition that will be used for RH alone. Then install RH and use the partition setup during install to setup your RH partitions. RH should see the partitions as NTFS and actually ask you how you want to boot up. At least that's the steps I went through for dual booting RH and 2000.....