creating dual boot in vista

[dougal]

i'm trying to utilize an older windows box to create a dual boot machine with mint...using the windows disk manager I shrank the c: drive which gave me 135gb of space of which I then created a 30gb volume(partition) as was suggested online...the usb flash is in FAT32 format so I chose this when formatting the new volume....error message states that this is too small a volume for the file type no parameters offered!...after searching here and online I'm still not finding anything giving file type allocation parameters...any leads on info or suggestions on what works would be great.

[ssfc72]

I believe you should Format the 30G Volume as EXT4, for your Mint partition.

[Jason]

Bill is right. What you should do is just make the space available but don't format it since Windows doesn't know how to natively make Linux partitions (unless this has changed). Honestly though, the LM install can handle all the formatting required. No need to use Windows disk manager at all.