[aclug-L] Re: Suggestions?

[Michael Moore <mrmoore@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

James O. Harms wrote:

>Jeff Vian wrote:
>
>>Michael Moore wrote:
>>
>
>>You need to set up the correct printer driver for your printer.
>>Some of the newer printers are not yet supported but a ton of them are.
>>
>
>If a new printer does not yet have a Linux driver available, you can often use
>the driver for an earlier printer from the same mfg.  You may loose some bells
>& whistles, but at least you have a functioning printer.
>
>>>2) I currently have a two hard drive system with Linux RH7.2(hdb1/ext3)
>>>on one hard drive and M$ (hda1/vfat) on the other; so I can boot to
>>>either OS.  I was wanting to make the vfat partition on the first drive
>>>smaller and put an ext3 partition in the freed up space.  I thought I
>>>might be able to do this using the cfdisk command.  I can't seem to get
>>>the cfdisk command to work or I just don't know how to use it.  Any
>>>suggestions.
>>>
>>read up on fips (it is included on the dos utilities section of the
>>redhat linux distro CD)
>>
>>if you do a defrag of the vfat partition so all the end of the partition
>>is free and no data gets lost then fips will let you resize the vfat
>>partition and create a new partition at the end.
>>
>>>-----Mike
>>>
>
>As Jeff pointed out, fips is a program that will resize fat16 or fat32
>partitions.  This gives you the empty space in which to create Linux
>partitions with cfdisk.   
>
Thanks guys, for the fips information....I'll read up on that.  Also, 
and I didn't make this clear, I can't even locate the program/command 
"cfdisk" in Red Hat7.2.  The Red Hat 7.2 Unleashed book talks a little 
about how to use it; but, I can't locate it.  I searched for Man & Info 
pages on it...with no luck.  And I used the find command to locate 
it....with no luck.

>
>Another way to do this - this obviously works best
>during a fresh install - is to: (1) install MSWindows.  Only partition and
>format the space you intend to use for MSWindows, leaving the rest of the
>drive unpartitioned and unformatted.  (2) After MSWindows is set up, use
>cfdisk to allocate the Linux partitions.  Linux fdisk will not see this empty
>space, but cfdisk will.  GUI oriented installers like those used by Mandrake,
>etc. will see this empty space, and you can partition it during a Linux
>install if you are in expert mode.
>
>As long as you set up MSWindows first it won't trash your Linux install, Linux
>will leave MSWindows alone, and you can set up Lilo in the mbr to choose which
>system you desire to run.  Running multiple Linux versions is very easy to do
>with the setup described above.  There is one simple trick you must know, and
>if anyone is interested, I will be happy to pass it on.
>
>--joh
>
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