"Austad, Jay" wrote:
> 
> That particular install was Mandrake 7.1, however, 7.2 is out now and is
> much better.  I suggest using that.
> 
> It doesn't use partition magic to resize the partitions though, I think it
> uses a form of fips.  In any case, it worked very well.  Just click on the
> windows partition, click resize, and move the slider down to whatever size
> you want.  Then click on your freed up space and create your linux
> partitions, it's very simple.  I didn't have any problems, but I make no
> guarantees, back up your important data first.  :)
> 
> Jay

I think Mandrake uses the DiskDrake program to resize partitions.  You
can find DiskDrake here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/diskdrake/

Of course, unless you're installing Mandrake, you need to already be
running Linux to be able to use it...

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