I am curious..why Slackware? I don't think it is exactly a newbie distribution.
http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=29
Maybe you should give mandrake a shot. I believe it has a resizing partitioning capability.
I want to install slackware. I've downloaded the isos and burned them, and gotten to the part of setup where I have to repartition my hard drive with fdisk.
I can't figure out how to reduce the size of the primary partition to make an extended one. Windows XP is on the primary, and it has about 5 gigs free... how many cylinders is that and how can I make sure that I reassign only free, empty space to the linux partition? I really need to keep the FAT32-formatted data intact.
A link to an old trial of partitionmagic will do too ![]()
Also, I was wondering how much space /home requires (I want to make that partition separate and as small as possible) and how much space I should format into a linux swap partition. I have 128 megs of ram and plan on using kde if that makes any difference.

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