On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 20:04, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 01:51, Emmanuel Blindauer wrote: > > Le Lundi 20 Janvier 2003 11:14, Warly a �crit : > > > Beta 2 now available. > > > > > > Two 650 MB ISOs. > > > > > > Included Club applications (name, then number of votes, in parenthesis > > > reason why it has not been included) > > > NTFS partitioning tool 87 (could not be put in gpl CDs) > > > As said in another mail is it http://ntfs-linux.sf.net ? > > Today, people who want to install linux have only one HD computer with windows > > XP preinstalled. They want to try linux because [put what you want here]. > > But, only with windows and linux they *can't* go futher. > > XP uses ntfs partition, and so the 9.0 installer can't resize some place. > > If they try to pass out the 'obscure' message, they loose they HD. (perhaps > > you will have to write "like in windows XP or 2000"). > > So I think a tool who can resize a ntfs partition cannot be left out of the > > main distribution. > > This is a no-go thing. > > This is something of a sweeping generalisation. The proportion of all > PCs that are running XP is, as yet, still pretty tiny, and by no means > do all XP installations - pre-installed or not - use NTFS; a lot of > vendors still use FAT32 by preference. But yes, NTFS will increase its > presence over time, so something **RELIABLE** that can resize NTFS > partitions would be good. But I think it's important that it's a > well-tested utility, because a Mandrake that can't be installed without > help on an NTFS disk is still infinitely preferable to one that tries to > resize an NTFS disk and trashes it. > -- > adamw > >
Agreed. As someone who tried installing Stormix on a machine with NTFS partitions, and promptly learned the value of regular backups, NTFS resizing support has to be rock-solid before a distro that wants to survive (Mandrake, for example) adopts it. Dan
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