thinkpad coming with XP, want to shrink it's partition for linux
From: Mark (none_at_xxxyyy.com)
Date: 05/16/04
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Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 14:19:33 -0400
I have a thinkpad T41 coming mailorder, of course it
has WinXP on it (no choice). I want to put Fedora Core 2 on it
but keep the XP for the occasional application that has
to run in XP. Is it doable to just use a partition tool
like BootIt NG to shrink the XP NTFS partition (primary),
and delete the "pre-desktop area" that IBM puts in
and then make the partitions for Fedora Linux during it's install
or should I premake the ext3 partitions with BootIt? The
disk is 40GB.
some people on the web suggested they reinstalled XP
from the IBM restore CD's, others seemed to shrink the
XP partition with a tool. The main thing I want to
avoid is XP trying to mess with the linux stuff.
Mark
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