linux saved my butt, but ....

[Josh Coffman]

probably. 120gig could fit a couple things on it.

--- Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 14:28 -0700, Josh Coffman
> wrote:
> > 
> > --- "Eric \"Shubes\"" <plug at shubes.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > Josh Coffman wrote:
> > > >   My kids started fighting over playing Tux
> games
> > > on
> > > > my laptop. So i figured I would dual boot the
> > > > desktop...
> > > > 
> > > >   I backed-up, defragged, and booted a livecd
> > > (Mepis)
> > > > to shrink the partition. 
> > > > 
> > > >   Well Mepis messed up. I like Mepis and was
> > > planning
> > > > on using it for the desktop. But now I
> couldn't do
> > > > anything. Actually, it was QTParted that
> caused
> > > the
> > > > problem. 
> > > > 
> > > >   fixmbr didn't work, couldn't install
> windows,
> > > Mepis
> > > > couldn't install. I tried a couple others that
> > > > couldn't fix it. Anyway, Fedora Core 4
> installed
> > > > great. I just told it to use the whole disk an
> > > remove
> > > > any previous partitions.
> > > > 
> > > > Thing is I was planning on partitioning the
> drive
> > > so I
> > > > could at least have seperate /home and /swap.
> That
> > > way
> > > > I could easily switch distros without deleting
> > > > everyone's files.
> > > > 
> > > > Now I'm a little gun-shy about trying to
> shring a
> > > > partition again, but I'd like to be able to
> switch
> > > > distros if I feel like it. Suggestions?
> > > > 
> > > > -j
> > > > 
> > > If possible, bring it to the Installfest on
> > > Saturday. We should be able 
> > > to get the partitions set up for you (and show
> you
> > > how to do it).
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > -Eric 'shubes'
> > 
> > It would be fun to come if even only to watch and
> > learn. Honestly, I probably won't make it though.
> > Perhaps someone could tell me the steps they would
> do
> > to fix my hard drive config? I can probably figure
> out
> > the howto part if I just know the steps in order.
> > 
> > Something like(and am just guessing): 
> > 1) shrink partition; use command "unknown-command"
> > (I'll figure out the usage of the command)
> > 2) create partitions for /home /swap (think i
> already
> > know how to do this.)
> > 3) copy current /home contents to new /home
> partition
> > (that's easy)
> > 4) configure x to use on partitions
> > 5) reboot (obvious)
> > 
> > I'm hoping that shrinking a linux partition is
> easier
> > than windows. I guess since I just installed last
> > night, I could just start over again and partition
> it
> > right this time if that's easier?
> ----
> really really dumb question...how big is the hard
> drive? Is it big
> enough to handle the binaries of several different
> distro's?
> 
> Craig
> 
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