[ILUG] Installing RH7.0 with Windows

Conor Daly conor.daly at oceanfree.net
Sat May 19 11:40:36 IST 2001


On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:30:13AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
John Madden thought:
> Hey,
> 
> I've done this already on my box but I've a question. A friend wants
> to install RH7.0 on his laptop. He only has one harddrive and it's all
> partitioned for Windows. I tried fips to split the partition but it said
> there was data in the last sector. I tried defragging the drive and fips
> again but got the same error.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas what to try next??

There's probably one of these drive image programs running.  they often
save data to the end of the drive.  You could have a look in 'doze for
hidden, system files (set "Show all files" in My computer / view / Folder
Options to see hidden files).  Un hide and unsystem these files, keep note
of the files you changed, do a defrag, do fips, boot windows again and
hide / system these files again.  that should do you.  That's all I can
remember but it's detailed in some howto somewhere.

Conor
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