On Jan 30, 6:21*pm, Adrian C wrote:
On 30/01/2011 17:24, Tabby wrote:

Use a decent OS and you dont have all this going on. Try ubuntu if P4,
Antix or Puppy if older, and DSL if it doesnt have 128M ram.

Yup. Quite simple in Linux,

Just open up a terminal window, open a su shell, do a fdisk -l, mount -t
/dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3, and symlink that to somewhere more friendly or do
tar -xjfv ~/gparted-0.7.1.tar.bz2, ./configure, make, make check, make
install, run gparted, select disk, select partition, and format... In
case you get stuck, have another net connected PC standing by to spend
the rest of your life googling arcane error messages that apply
specially to one distribution and release and not the next.

:-|


Why would you do any of that? Just put the live cd in, and it'll deal
with partitioning & formatting during the install, automatically if
wished. Linux has come a long way since the early days, just as
windows has.

And for adding HDDs after installation, you can plug and unplug them
pretty freely, as with windows.


NT