Re: Linux dual boot and WinXP newbie
From: Ike Milligan (accordiondoc_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 07/13/03
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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 22:19:28 -0400
"Pelysma" <pelysma@aol.com> wrote in message
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> >I'm looking at installing RH9 (it installed once just fine, but never
> >would after that.
>
> One newbie to another: I am told that only Mandrake and Partition Magic
are
> able to resize an NTFS/xp partition.
>
> If your Windows installer gives you the option of making a partition
smaller
> than the drive, great; I don't think xp home will do that. So you need
(1)
> Partition Magic, or (2) a Windows 2000 installation CD, or (3) a Mandrake
9.1
> installation set. That doesn't mean you actually install those things.
It
> means you use them to partition your drive, then exit the installation and
go
> ahead with RH9. The order in which you do this will depend on what you're
> using.
>
> For instance, you might install WinXP first, (or, if xp is already up,
defrag
> the drive) then use the Mandrake disks to resize the NTFS partition and
create
> partitions to run Linux in, then use the RH9 disks to continue that
> installation.
>
> Next issue: Even when new and clean, xp arranges its data in several
clumps
> throughout the drive. Mandrake's install disks can only carve a new
partition
> out of the unused end portion of the drive after the last clump, and can't
move
> data to make room for it. Thus you will probably find you can only reduce
the
> NTFS partition by about a quarter or less.
>
> The xp defrag tool doesn't defrag free space (to compact data to the
beginning
> of the drive), either, though you might get some help from Norton System
Works
> and its applet Speed Disk. Partition Magic can move data AND resize the
> partition. NSW and PM are commercial software you would have to buy.
>
> The final and best option if you can afford it would be to install a
second
> hard drive and put RH there.
>
> --P.
I have Partition Magic 4.0 that I bought for a dollar at a yard sale never
been registered. Is that up to date enough? or there were later ones. It
know it can resize a fat32 partition and then create linux partitions, but
so can FIPS.
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