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MGK wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
>  I'm having some problems intalling linux, well actually, it's actually a
> partitioning problem, and I would really appreciate some help.
> 
> I've been running linux on and off for about 8 months now.  Unfortunately
> had to take it off my HD a little while back due to some work that needed to
> be done.
> 
> My problem is this, I was going to try OS/2 Warp (got a copy of it of the
> front of an APC mag.), so I used fips to split my partion, around about
> 540mb...  After this I had some problem with intalling OS/2, which I'm not
> going to worry about right onw, I'd rather get Linux going.  Now I have a
> fair bit of free space left on my drive now (only 3gb to begin with),
> unfortunately I have some files that defrag won't move, therefore no fips...

From the FIPS docs:

"before starting FIPS you _must_ now defragment your Harddisk. All of
the
space that will be used for the new partition must be free. Be aware
that the
Windows Swapfile will not be moved by most defragmentation programs. You
must
uninstall it (in the 386enhanced part of the Windows Control Panel) and
rein-
stall it after using FIPS.
If you use IMAGE or MIRROR, the last sector of the hard disk contains a
hidden system file with a pointer to your mirror files. You _must_
delete this
file before using FIPS (it will be recreated the next time you run
mirror).
Do 'attrib -r -s -h image.idx' or 'attrib -r -s -h mirorsav.fil' in the
root
directory, then delete the file."

So if it's your Windows swap file, you can turn off virtual memory and
get rid of it.  Otherwise, you've got problems.  Have you tried
recruiting the empty space you created the first time round?
> I'm running PM CE (Caldera Edition), I'm not sure whether this version is
> slightly disabled, or it's just how PM is.  But all will let me do is change
> the free space(the before mentioned 540, or so) which is not enough for
> linux (well technically it is, but I want more...) or it will let me split
> my current windows drive, which the split would be 800mb, which on it's own
> is still not quite enough.  I would like to be able to join that 800 to the
> 540 (perfect!) but I can't work out how...

I'm not quite clear what you are describing.  If they are *contiguous*
partitions at the end of the disk, and neither of them are being used
for anything, you can delete both of them and then create a new
partition out of the free space.  If there are partitions in use after
those two partitions, you can't do that without losing data.