HD partition on laptop

From: Arthur Sharp (arthur_at_nospam.com)
Date: 03/22/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 07:24:57 +1100

Hi,

I've got a new Dell laptop and I plan to put Linux on it as well as keeping
xp.
I have already resized the xp partition with ntfsresize 1.9 and that worked
fine.

I need 4 partitions :
xp -- already there
fat32 -- so that Linux and xp can swap data
main Linux
swap Linux

Now I have the following problem : with fdisk I can't see how to create
more than 4 partitions. Unfortunately Dell already uses 1 that apparently it
is
not advised to delete. So, it looks like I need 5 partitions and only 4 seem
possible
with fdisk.
How do I do this ?

Keep in mind that the fat32 partition needs only to be small and low
performance.

Thanks,

Arthur

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