Re: Anyone Put Linux on Toshiba L15-S104 Yet?

From: James Brendan Migel (james.migel_at_gmail.com)
Date: 05/26/05 

Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 22:09:10 GMT

Jim wrote:
> My old Gateway Solo 9300 laptop has started to fail (harddrive), and is 5
> years old anyway. So I bought a Toshiba L15-S104 on sale. It's a cheap
> machine.
>
> I notice someone did put Debian on the S103. I'm hoping that with this
> S104 on sale, someone has bought one and put a distribution on it
> successfully.
>
> To put Linux on this, I'll have to go buy Partition Magic or some similar
> program to free up space for Linux. Right now, the whole 40 GB drive is
> Windows XP, which I also need. Frankly, I'm so strapped for cash right
> now, I don't want to make the purchase of Partition Magic (and maybe a
> USB floppy drive) unless I have a pretty good idea that I can get Linux
> on this machine reasonably easily.
>
> Jim
>

I recently tried out suse9.3 on my windowsXP box and was pleasantly
surprised when the installer correctly RESIZED MY WINDOWS NTFS partition
to make room for itself. After it made room it all installed fine and
later i successfully rebooted into windows or suse at will.

This opens up many options, you can either get suse9.3 distro (from
linuxcd.org it is much cheaper than partition magic would be) OR you can
find out what utility suse yast is using to resize NTFS partitions, boot
a knoppix disk and do that yourself then install distro of choice!

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