Need Advice - Partition - New OS

[arthurracoon]

I have a Dell Laptop with an actual capacity of 33.5 GB and an external hard drive with 149 GB.

I currently only have Windows on my laptop. I need to be able to run Linux as well.

First I'd like to squeeze all the hard drive data (on the laptop HD) to one area. What can I use to do this. Do I use the disk defragmenter.

Then I need to partition my HD (with partition magic i assume).

Can I run Linux off my external hard drive? (I was planning to use Fidora).

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Sigh. Lil' arthur's growing up.

I still remember his first post...

Those were the days...

 

[NEZCardsfan]

Being an MCSE, I cannot support this Linux you speak of. Why would you want to replace your old buddy Microsoft?? A product that I love. A product that works flawlessly.

 

[Ryanwb]

Just run a dual partion off your c:\ drive.

Set the swap and install partition in Linux and use the external hard drive for storage

 

[Ryanwb]

BTW what flavor of Linux are you using? I'm pretty good with Slackware, SUSE and Redhat.

I've even built Linspire (Lindows) machines before

 

[arthurracoon]

BTW what flavor of Linux are you using? I'm pretty good with Slackware, SUSE and Redhat.

I've even built Linspire (Lindows) machines before

I was planning on using Fedora which is from red hat.

 

[arthurracoon]

Sigh. Lil' arthur's growing up.

I still remember his first post...



Those were the days...

 

[arthurracoon]

Just run a dual partion off your c:\ drive.

Set the swap and install partition in Linux and use the external hard drive for storage

ok.

Is the disk defragmenter the way to squeeze all the hard drive data (on the laptop HD) to one area physically on the hard drive? or is there something else.

thanks

 

[arthurracoon]

ok.

Is the disk defragmenter the way to squeeze all the hard drive data (on the laptop HD) to one area physically on the hard drive? or is there something else.

thanks

ok.

i think i am now going to answer my own question.

it is the disk defragmenter.

someone please correct me if im wrong.

 

[Chaz]

ok.

Is the disk defragmenter the way to squeeze all the hard drive data (on the laptop HD) to one area physically on the hard drive? or is there something else.

thanks

You will need something like Partition Magic to resize partitions.

You could also back up the windows a then re-partition the disk using the fdisk utility.


Make sure you backup any files you can't afford to lose before you start.



Disk Defragmenter just makes the data contiguous in the existing partition. It cannot resize or move partitions.

 

[arthurracoon]

wow.

after almost screwing up the installation, i finally got it running...although I might redo it. The whole partition thing during the installition was strange....


I ended up using kubuntu.