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On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:50:39 -0500, (PeteCresswell)

In order to install, you need a parbreastion (or raw space) to install on.

There are, or used to be, third-party programs that would allow you to re-parbreastion a hard drive to make room for something like this. Windows, for some reason.... does not supply such a utility. I don't think they understand the advantage of multiple parbreastions (keeping one bad file or parbreastions from corrupting everything), and certainly they have no desire to make it easy for you to add another operating system.

Find such a program (someone will recommend one -- it used to be that Parbreastion Magic was highly recommended, but my memory harkens back to Windows 3.1 days), or get a separate hard drive to use just for linux.

There are no guarantees that re-parbreastioning can be done without hosing your Windows parbreastion, so be sure to back up everything before you begin.

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David L. Johnson

o As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not `-(, certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to ()() reality. -- Albert Einstein