On Thursday 31 August 2006 16:32, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Thursday 31 August 2006 15:59, Nick Wiltshire wrote:
> > does the Linspire installer have the capability to shrink a NTFS
> > partition to make room for itself?
>
> no, you have to set up your partitions before installing.
>
> in recent versions, when you first boot the installation CD there is a boot
> time option to go into a partitioner (gparted). gparted supports resizing
> ntfs with the help of some additional tools, but i'm not sure if they are
> provided as i've never tried resizing an ntfs partition with
> linspire/freespire before.

Knoppix disk has a good repartitioning program.

Either case, you want to make sure you run the defrag under windows before you 
repartition.


~Neil
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Neil Bower
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