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Yes, already tried all those (from FIPS doc's too), thanks for your reply
though.

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"Jason Stokes" <jstok@bluedog.apana.org.au> wrote in message
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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.