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Installing with Resized Hard-Drive - Part 2
SATA Hard Drive for: Mepis 6 DVD | Mepis 6.04 Beta 3 | Mepis 64 Beta 3 by: je.saist Preparation Guides: Before a FAT32 or NTFS drive with Windows install can be resized there are numerous steps that need to be taken to prepare Microsoft Windows to be resized. This Guide presumes that the CCleaner, Check Disk, and Defragment Guides have been completed. CCleaner
| Check
Disk | Defragment
| Regseeker
| WinASO
Resize Part 1 | Resize Part 2 | Resize Part 3
Following
this Guide WILL
PUT YOUR INFORMATION AT RISK.
Not MAY, it WILL. Over Part 1 we covered the undo function of qtparted and went as far as creating our logical partition for the Mepis Install. Time to finish creating the Linux Partitions. 23: We can now see that there is a new free partition underneath the extended partition. Left Click on the bottom free partition.  24: Right Click on the bottom free partition to bring up the context menu Left Click on Create.  25: This time our partition box has held the settings of GB. The current size is 52.39gig  26: I am going to change the size to 10gig  27: Left Click on OK  28: sda5 now shows as an ext3 partition. Left Click on the bottom free partition again.  29: Right Click on the bottom free partition to bring up the context menu Left Click on Create  30: This next partition will be our /swap We can change the partition type with a drop-down menu.  31: Change the partition type to be linux-swap  32: There, our partition type is now set as linux-swap, and our current partition size is 42.40gig  33: I am going to change the partition size to be 1gig  34: Left Click on OK  35: One more time on the bottom free partition. Right Click to bring up the context menu Left Click on Create  36: No need to change the size, just Left Click on OK.  37: The commit button is in the upper left hand corner of qtparted, shaped like a floppy disk. Left Click on the floppy disk icon.  38: qtparted will ask for confirmation on the changes and warn to make sure the drives are not mounted at this time. Left Click on Yes  39: It may take a while, but wait for qtparted to report Operations completed successfully.  40: Left Click on OK  41: We can go ahead and close qtparted.  I missed setting up that logical partition, can I go back to Part 1? I've got the Partitions down, onwards to the actual install in Part 3. Take me back to the Guides. |