In article <1992Aug14.193838.16110@nas.nasa.gov> chiu@wk211.nas.nasa.gov (Ing-Tsau Chiu) writes:
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>Wonder if there's any way to install Linux w/o destroying existing
>partitions.  (Sorry if this is an faq.)

Yes.  You must non-destructively repartition the disk.  
Basically, this involves shortening a DOS partition
(both in the DOS boot record, and in the partition table), 
after defragmenting it and getting all of the used stuff out of 
the way, and making a new Linux partition in the old space.

Watch out for logical sector size != 512 bytes, like on 
Disk Manager partitions.

It's a little messy, and unless you can be REAL comfortable 
with the structures involved, you probably don't want to do it.


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