Re: General Linux Laptoppin'

[fiaid@quasi-sane.com]

Let me recommend a full back up and several prayers to the gods before you 
do anything that requires munging around with a windows partition.  But, 
personally I would actually do a completely fresh re-install and have 
everything partitioned the way that I want it.  yes, it is a pain in the 
butt, but isn't it about time for the yearly windows re-install anyways?

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Tighe Schlottog         workape         fiaid
"Nothing is too cruel if it is funny enough."

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Tom Dison wrote:

> Mandrake includes a partition-resizer in its install
> which works fine with all versions of Windows. First,
> make sure you defrag the windows partition first. I
> did have a Windows2000 parition where windows had put
> unmoveable system files far out on the disk. I
> actually had to re-install Win2k before I could resize
> the partition!
> 
> --- NZG <ngustavson@emacinc.com> wrote:
> 
> > As I'm sure I've mentioned once or twice, I'm
> > getting ready to buy a laptop.
> > Once I do this I'm going to put Linux on it, but
> > don't really want to wipe my 
> > Windows distro if possible, I'd rather create a Lilo
> > dual-boot.
> > 
> > This is a new trick for me, as Windows will already
> > be on it, and will 
> > undoubtedly have partitioned the whole drive into
> > one big stupid fat system, 
> > and I can't add another drive like I can with a PC.
> > 
> > As I understand it, I can modify the partition space
> > somehow without 
> > destroying the information on the existing Windows
> > partition. (I think the 
> > Debian distro may even be able to do this)
> > Has anyone done this before? How well does it work?
> > What's a good howto/watchout link?
> > 
> > thx,
> > NZG.
> >  
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