How to shrink a FAT32 Partition?

[Mr. Maxwell]

Hi,
I'm trying to install puppy on a fat32 hardrive and I can't shrink the partition so that I can add a Linux partition. Any ideas?

[muggins]

Mr. Maxwell,

Assuming you've already defragged the windows partition, have you tried booting the pup CD in RAM, (puppy pfix=ram), then using Menu->System->GParted?

If this isn't working, what problems are you encountering?

Plus, as an alternative to partitioning, are you aware of ICPUG's method for running puppy alongside windows, without touching the MBR?

http://www.icpug.org.uk/national/linnwin/contents.htm

[polymath]

Lin'n'win New-B has some good stuff to get puppy users going on a windows machine, just do some googling

[otropogo]

Hi,
I'm trying to install puppy on a fat32 hardrive and I can't shrink the partition so that I can add a Linux partition. Any ideas?

Get zeleps presizer, put it on a boot floppy or a bootable CD. Follow its instructions carefully.

Much safer than Gparted, in my experience.

[Mr. Maxwell]

Thanks, but I found the recovery CDs to windows so I just reformated the hardrive.

[Béèm]

So if it's not an issue anymore, can you edit the subject line of your first post and add [SOLVED] at the end?