[CS-FSLUG] Adding a partition for Linux

[Tim Young]

That sounds like you need to go into the bios and set it to be able to 
boot from CD. Often, to get into the bios you need to press ESC, F1, or 
F2 key during bootup.

- Tim Young

Jim Isbell, W5JAI wrote:
> Sounded good and I tried it, but apparently XP has some way of
> disabling any boot but itself.  I went into SETUP and directed the
> boot to the CD and still it ignored the CD and booted from the HD.  I
> then disabled boot from the HD and it then complained that it could
> not find an operating system...even though BOTH CD drives had
> operating systems in them, ME and Freespire.  I then tried reading the
> Linux CD from the console in XP and it could not read it.  I tried
> putting an ME setup disk in the CD drive and it would not boot from
> that.  The CD can be read however because by going into XP then
> accesing the CD and trying to run setup it will give me the message
> that ME cannot be set up from within XP...which I knew, but it shows
> the drive is reading correctly.  But it ignores either disk when I try
> booting from the CD drive and goes to the HD to boot XP and I can see
> that it is accessing the CD drives, but ignoring that they can boot.
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:14 PM, l4c <l4c at thelinuxlink.net> wrote:
>   
>> Jim Isbell, W5JAI wrote:
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>>> I have a PC running on XP and want to add a partition so I can install
>>> Linux.  BUT...the entire drive is occupied with the one partition for
>>> XP.  Is it possible to shrink the partition, either within Windows or
>>> with an external CD so that I can add Linux without loosing the stuff
>>> I have on the Win partition.  The Win partition while using the whole
>>> drive is only using 6 gbytes pf the 80 gbytes available!
>>>
>>>       
>> Defrag your drive, then boot up an ubuntu live cd and use gparted to resize.
>>
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>> -Linc Fessenden
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