> From: partman@yahoogroups.com on Behalf Of Snezana
> I have a HDD 70gb and I have already instaled win98.
> If I instal RPM

RPM is not a software you should "install": you just drop it in the
place of your convinience, and can move it without problem.

> and I create a partition will I lose data I have
> on the disk.

Most certainly yes.

> I read how to create the first partition but
> should I reinstal the win98 or in the first partition will be
> placed win98 that I already have.

If you have Win98 on the disk (presumibly in a partition using the whole
disk), and then you create a "first partition" (presumibly smaller)
using RPM without taking special precautions, then yes you'll have to
reinstall Win98.

If what you want to achieve is to shrink the Windows partition (for
whatever reason), you perhaps can do it with RPM (I am unsure) but your
best bet here is to rather use some specialized tool for this very task,
for example the freely available FIPS (at ftp: or
http://ftp.cz.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/dist/fips20.zip; choose a
FreeBSD mirror near you, .cz. here means Czech Republic.)


> I want just another
> partition that I plan to be with winXP on it. Can I instal it
> from the first partition where I have the necessary files to
> or it should be from the CD rom or maybe from USB Mem drive.

I understand you've copied the content of the cd-rom into your 98
partition (and I assume you have enough of space, xp will probably need
more than 1 GB...). So you can install from that copy, using the winnt32
program inside the i386 folder; if you do that, be sure to understand
the questions the setup program wil ask you about the mode and place
where xp will be installed, and the consequences of your choices: xp
usually expects to be in the C:\WINDOWS folder, but this folder isn't
available on your drive (since 98 is already there), so it may propose
you unusual combinations, and you have to be careful it does not erase
your Win98 setup, for instance.
If you have created another partition named E:, xp might be able to
install itself there (this is not automatic, so if you did not see a
choice to this end you can abort the install...) but please remember
that later you will need BOTH the C: (seen as "system" from within xp)
AND the E: (seen as "boot" from within xp) partition in order to
successfully boot xp, at least until you make some surgery to the boot
mechanism (the details are available either on the archives of this
group or on the web, but this is NOT an easy task.)

> And when defining the rpm partition

You do not need the "RPM partition" (assuming you are naming this way
the F0 entry seen in RPM 2.44 for the more-than-4-partition scheme.)



Antoine