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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Kunle 'bona wrote:

> i don't know if this message is coming too late, after
> all you might already have installed bl3 but i was
> thinking it might be a "waste" of space to install bl3
> on the whole partition unless you plan to upgrade
> (install slackware packages) i don't think you need
> more than 100mb under normal circumstances (and that's
> stretching it). there are some disk partitioning tools
Yes, I got quite a lot into less than 40MB including Opera, links2 and 
lynx.  But if you want to also compile, at least 200MB.

> you can get; i hear (knoppix has something like
> that)which would allow you to resize your main
> partition  without you losing data (as always you are
> advised to back up your data) AND create an ext2
> partition with the space you free

DOS partition magic works well.  Partition resizer was suggested.
Try Ultimate Boot CD tools.
> --- Ben Sanders <BSand003 AT ucr.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to install 'basic linux 3' and I have
> > I have a laptop with windows 98 on one big
> > partition, and I
> > think there are some other smaller partitions which
> > take care
> > of some of the laptop-specific things. I would like
> > to wipe
> > windows 98 so that I can just put 'basic linux' on

Note that in this case he wants to get rid of Win98, which makes it 
simpler.  Is there any reason to retain the smaller partitions?

Sindi