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Old 09-10-2003, 10:46 AM   #1
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i have winxp and mdk9.1 and no freespace, hw cn i install rh9?

i have winxp and mdk9.1 and no freespace, hw cn i install rh9?
there aint no freespace in the Harddisk for redhat 9, i mean all partitions are already assigned to MDK and Windows..
what is the best thing that i should do?
please help.
thank you and God bless.
 
Old 09-10-2003, 11:08 AM   #2
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You can resize your partitions, or if you don't want to, the Red Hat install might have an option for using a loopback file instead of a partition.
 
Old 09-10-2003, 01:04 PM   #3
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ah... thats kewl... but in some instances, its like really impossible to install a new linux distro without a freespace on the whole harddisk
 
  


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