good partitioning program needed

John Heim jheim at wisc.edu
Wed May 31 15:16:59 UTC 2006


The fdisk program on a oralux 6.2 CD can fdisk an 80 Gb drive. I know, I've 
done it about a million times in my job. So if you need to repartition a 
drive, I would use oralux.
At 02:32 AM 5/30/2006, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
>Hello!
>
>My fdisk can only take about 50 gigabyte of my hard drive.
>
>Don't know really why.
>
>What version of fdisk are you using?
>Could you e-mail it please?
>
>/Kristoffer
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Willem van der Walt" <wvdwalt at csir.co.za>
>To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 9:10 AM
>Subject: Re: good partitioning program needed
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>>I suggest you first install 98 and just make sure that you tell it to 
>>only use the first lets say 100 gb.
>>Then just install fedora and you could even let it do its own thing.
>>I would use fdisk.  Never had a problem with that.
>>Regards, Willem
>>
>>
>>On Tue, 30 May 2006, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
>>
>>>Hello!
>>>
>>>I need a good program to partition my harddrive.
>>>I've gotten a 200 gb harddrive, and I want to install windows 98 and 
>>>linux on the same computer.
>>>
>>>I'm using fedora core 3.
>>>So, what partitioning tools are good?
>>>
>>>I've tried disk druid, but it doesn't seem very accesible o me.
>>>
>>>Since I plan to install win 98 first I don't have linux at all, so I 
>>>think that I'll have to do with some dos or windows based program.
>>>
>>>Also, When installing fedora core 3 partition errors are much more 
>>>common than when using fedora 2.
>>>
>>>Have any of you noticed this?
>>>
>>>/Kristoffer
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