[wplug] Installfest preperation - Observation from the front line

[Doug Green]

I'm pretty new to things, which means that I've re-partitioned more
times than I care to mention for various reasons. I always just back up my
data and use fdisk. PM would be nice, and I've heard of other
"non-destructive" repartitioning tools, but I haven't had any luck with
them personally. Fdisk is at least reliable, and it's easy to make a boot
diskette (providing you have a floppy drive).

Doug


On Sat, 25 Aug 2001
bpmedley at 4321.tv wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Zach Paine wrote:
>
> > We should definately bring more cd's to installfests.  I will try to burn
> > some and I would urge those with some time and a cd burner to burn some
> > distros as well.
> >
> > Installation is the biggest hurdle to running linux, but configuration is
> > right up there as well.  So I agree that if you are having trouble getting
> > something configured or usually just lack the time, the installfest is a good
> > resource.  To that end, if you know you want to work on something specific at
> > the installfest, email the list ahead of time so that those who are willing
> > to help can prepare.
>
> There is one thing that I am curious of.  What will be used to re-partition
> a person's hard drive.  This is under the assumption that someone has a
> rather large drive and only has one partition with one OS installed.  I
> personally use partition magic, but I can't really bring that...
>
> I would like to know what free utilities people have used to do this.  I
> could search google to find out what's available, but I would like to know
> what people have had successfull personal experience with.
>
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