good partitioning program needed

[John Heim]

I've created about a million dual boot PCs over the past year or so and I 
always partition the HD with fdisk first. I boot with an oralux CD.

I don't know about Win 98 but I can tell you that Windows XP will slurp up 
the entire HD unless you create a second partition. ie. Just creating a 
partition for Windows that takes up half the disk won't do.
1. Boot oralux
2. run fdisk ex: fdisk /dev/hda
3. Create primary partition 1, change type to B (fat32), make active
4. Create partion 2, make type 83 (linux)
5. Save changes

Now you can install Windows into partion 1 and linux into partition 2.


At 07:00 PM 5/29/2006, 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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