linux partition

[Gregory Nowak]

I think you mean: "fdisk /status",
but I'm not sure what you mean by ovservation.
Greg


On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 08:21:56PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Hi, Glen:
> 
> The term, "D:> Drive" is a Windows/DOS designation and not a linux 
> designation. Also, odds are great that it's not a drive, but a partition. 
> Are you certain that it's actually a second drive on your hard disk, and 
> not just a second partition on your first disk?
> 
> To find out, run fdisk. You may need to shutdown to ms dos to run fdisk. 
> Be careful not to change anything you don't mean to change while running 
> fdisk. There is a way to run fdisk in observation mode, but I don't recall 
> how.
> 
> Second point ... 200 Mb is not much these days. It's probably enough for 
> something like zipspeak, and you could probably get a native linux 
> installation into 200 Mb, but you'd have to work at it, and you'd have to 
> know what you're doing in linux to make it work out.
> 
> If you're running zipspeak, you certainly don't need to repartition. Read 
> the documentation that comes with zipspeak. It explains that you put it in 
> a directory and run it from a shutdown to ms dos -- a DOS boot without 
> Windows, in other words.
> 
> If you're trying to get a native install into 200 Mb, don't do it. Do 
> whatever you need to do to get more space available--at least 1 Gig. Even 
> if you need to get another hard drive, which can be done for well under 
> $100 now, you should get more space if you really want to install a 
> working linux. Of course, you could see about making more space available 
> on your current system by resizing existing partitions. The linux tool 
> parted is one that can do that, and can do it accessibly--with speech.
> 
>  On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Glenn Ervin 
> wrote:
> 
> > does my d drive, which is dedicated to trying to get linux to work, have to
> > be partitioned?
> > If so, can I use fdisk to partition it?
> > I would rather not partition it if I do not have to do that.
> > that drive is 200MB and removable.
> > 
> > Sincerely,
> > O. Glenn Ervin-- (Lenny) N0YJV
> > Northeast Nebraska
> > gervin at kdsi.net
> > or My Work e-mail:
> > gervin at ncbvi.state.ne.us
> > 
> > 
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