Re: FYI... SUSE 10.1 trashed my XP partition.

Steve Norton wrote:

Just an FYI post for anyone who's looking at doing an install...

The installation proceeded without any problems, except that instead of
resizing my XP partition, it trashed it. I ended up with an 8.4gig NTFS
partition and 41.5gig free space. The swap and / partitions were
created as expected.

I fucked up my new laptop - something about grub and the WinXP Tablet
edition suspend mode didn't like each other and the MBR went fubar.

All is well, now. Still, gateway is telling me, "the hardware was
designed
for windows xp and we don't have linux drivers." I asked when they
would.

WGA pissed us off so much that I'm doing whatever it takes to get off of
Windows. I've got a legal copy, yet Microsoft thinks its perfectly fine to
use MY CPU cycles to spy on me.

I haven't gotten an answer yet. In the meantime, I'm enjoying a fast
laptop with 1280x768 3d resolution and killer sound. Just need to get the
touch screen working. :)

Touch screen... <drool>

I'd like to find a source for a couple 15" LCD touchscreen monitors. Got a
CarPC project I'm trying to lay out.


i hope you disabled your swap file in XP as well as run scandisk and
defrag(in that order) BEFORE resizing. never had any problems using this
method, although never tried it with 10.1

(:
.

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