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+  <sect2 arch="i386"><title>Partitioning From DOS or Windows</title>
+<para>
+
+If you are manipulating existing FAT or NTFS partitions, it is
+recommended that you either use the scheme below or native Windows or
+DOS tools.  Otherwise, it is not really necessary to partition from DOS
+or Windows; the Linux partitioning tools will generally do a better
+job.
+
+</para><para>
+
+But if you have a large IDE disk, and are using neither LBA addressing,
+overlay drivers (sometimes provided by hard disk manufacturers), nor a
+new (post 1998) BIOS that supports large disk access extensions, then
+you must locate your Debian boot partition carefully. In this case,
+you will have to put the boot partition into the first 1024 cylinders
+of your hard drive (usually around 524 megabytes, without BIOS
+translation). This may require that you move an existing FAT or NTFS
+partition.
+
+</para>
+
+   <sect3 id="lossless">
+   <title>Lossless Repartitioning When Starting From DOS, Win-32 or OS/2
+   </title>
+
+<para>
+
+One of the most common installations is onto a system that already
+contains DOS (including Windows 3.1), Win32 (such as Windows 95, 98, Me,
+NT, 2000, XP), or OS/2, and it is desired to put Debian onto the same disk
+without destroying the previous system. Note that the installer supports
+resizing of FAT and NTFS filesystems as used by DOS and Windows. Simply
+start the installer, select the option to <menuchoice> <guimenuitem>Manually
+edit partition table</guimenuitem> </menuchoice>, select the partition to
+resize, and specify its new size.
+So in most cases you should not need to use the method described below.
+
+</para><para>
+
+Before going any further, you should have decided how you will be
+dividing up the disk. The method in this section will only split a
+partition into two pieces. One will contain the original OS and the
+other will be used for Debian.  During the installation of Debian, you
+will be given the opportunity to use the Debian portion of the disk as you
+see fit, i.e., as swap or as a file system.
+
+</para><para>
+
+The idea is to move all the data on the partition to the beginning,
+before changing the partition information, so that nothing will be
+lost.  It is important that you do as little as possible between the
+data movement and repartitioning to minimize the chance of a file
+being written near the end of the partition as this will decrease the
+amount of space you can take from the partition.
+
+</para><para>
+
+The first thing needed is a copy of <command>fips</command> which is
+available in the <filename>tools/</filename> directory on your nearest Debian
+mirror. Unzip the archive and copy the files
+<filename>RESTORRB.EXE</filename>, <filename>FIPS.EXE</filename> and
+<filename>ERRORS.TXT</filename> to a bootable floppy.  A bootable floppy can
+be created using the command <filename>sys a:</filename> under DOS.
+<command>fips</command> comes with very good documentation which you may
+want to read.  You will definitely need to read the documentation if
+you use a disk compression driver or a disk manager.  Create the disk
+and read the documentation <emphasis>before</emphasis> you defragment the disk.
+
+</para><para>
+
+The next thing needed is to move all the data to the beginning of the
+partition. <command>defrag</command>, which comes standard with DOS 6.0 and
+later, can easily do the job.  See the <command>fips</command> documentation
+for a list of other software that may do the trick.  Note that if you
+have Windows 9x, you must run <command>defrag</command> from there, since
+DOS doesn't understand VFAT, which is used to support for long
+filenames, used in Windows 95 and higher.
+
+</para><para>
+
+After running the defragmenter (which can take a while on a large
+disk), reboot with the <command>fips</command> disk you created in the
+floppy drive.  Simply type <filename>a:\fips</filename> and follow the directions.
+
+</para><para>
+
+Note that there are many other partition managers out there, in
+case <command>fips</command> doesn't do the trick for you.
+
+</para>
+   </sect3>
+
+   <sect3 id="partitioning-for-dos"><title>Partitioning for DOS</title>
+
+<para>
+
+If you are partitioning for DOS drives, or changing the size of DOS
+partitions, using Linux tools, many people experience problems working
+with the resulting FAT partitions.  For instance, some have reported
+slow performance, consistent problems with <command>scandisk</command>, or
+other weird errors in DOS or Windows.
+
+</para><para>
+
+Apparently, whenever you create or resize a partition for DOS use,
+it's a good idea to fill the first few sectors with zeros.  Do this
+prior to running DOS's <command>format</command> command, from Linux:
+
+<informalexample><screen>
+# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdXX bs=512 count=4
+</screen></informalexample>
+
+</para>
+   </sect3>
+  </sect2>