On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:50:30 -0700, hemant_ng wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am a newbie to linux and this is the first tiuume i am installing
> linux on a PC.
>
> My home PC is 500MHZ P3 with a 40 GB HDD.
> While partioning the HDD, i am faced with a dilemma.
>
> Let me explain, I have 1 primary partition(C and one logical
> partition (D.
>
> C: has Win98 with 14 GB used and 4 GB free space.
> D: has win2k with 6.5 GB used and 12 GB free space.
>
> As per the Slackware Essentials book, I need at least 2 more partitions
> (for / and swap).
>
> But all my free space is on the logical partition (D, 12 GB. and I do
> not want to delete that partition as it has a Database server and
> related s/w installled on it.
>
> Can anyone tell me what to do ?
>
> Can I free some space on C: and then split C: to create the Linux
> partitions.
>
> Can I avoid deleting the D: partition ? What do I do after deleting ?
>
> Do all the linux partitions have to be primary partitions ?
>
> I plan to use Linux fdisk of fips for making the partitions.
>
> Thanks for youe help,
> Hemant

All you need to do is use the partitioning tools available with any modern
Linux disto. They will allow you to resize your MS partitions and make new
partitions for your install. 512mb or 1gb or so is all you need for swap.
Linux does not care an iota whether it is using primary partitions. I run
off hda12 on one system. You can resize either of both of your MS
partitions quite safely. You should checkdisk and defrag them both first,
and backups are always a good idea.