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Installing Winders After linux

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panic8:
Doogee I wouldn't recommend installing windows (no capital) after Linux if its 2000 or Xp.  The aforementioned will, in my experience (well, I've only tried it with Xp but I've read its the same with 2000) f*ck around with your Linux partition, more so if its ext3.  Not just the bootloader, it will corrupt the partition and it is very hard to recover the partition and its data.  If its 9x/me fire ahead with your installation, it'll just overwrite the boot sector to load windows only; so make a bootdisk and install LILO/Grub.  

Either way be very careful about partitioning.  Do not under any circumstance use DOS FDISK, parted or GNU's fdisk is probably the best option.  

BTW, I know what its like, you do or will need that windows installation for something.  For me I need it for those devices inaccessible in Linux because of the manufacturers won't release drivers (on my system, that's just a scanner)... so I won't nag you about installing windows.

Doogee:
ok well thanks for the suggestions, i will be installing 98se.

Which programme should i use to kill the swap partition and resize the ext3 partition?

[ January 20, 2003: Message edited by: -=-=-Doogee-=-=- ]

Doogee:
riiiiiiight... soooooo whhhaaaatt dddooooo iiii uuussssseeee tttoooo pppaaaarrrtttttiiiioooonnn mmmyyyyyy dddddrrrrriiiiivvvvveeeeeeeeeee??????????

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also how can i do this im going to delete a swap partition and resize an ext3 partition live? i dont think that is possible
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[ January 21, 2003: Message edited by: -=-=-Doogee-=-=- ]

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