[CS-FSLUG] Adding a partition for Linux

[Tim Young]

You could also try pressing f2
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm
That is another key that e-machine uses...

- Tim Young

Jim Isbell, W5JAI wrote:
> Thats what I did.   On the EMachines you hit (Esc) during boot.  But
> it didnt help!
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> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Tim Young <Tim.Young at lightsys.org> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> 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:
>>>
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>>>> 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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