Dear List This might become a feature request, depending on your echoes:
Quite a few might cheer if installing debian-edu blows away previously installed non-free operation systems. However, common sense is that teachers should be enabled to install Skolelinux as second system. Debian-Edu Sarge does a good deal here, supporting manual partitioning after refusing autopartkit twice. Provided an apt documentation, windows users who have some spare partition or empty space on their hard disc, now can go for Skolelinux. Alas, in most cases, bad blue windows seizes whole of the disk, and even worse, puts some ugly NTFS file system onto it. What now? Personally I usually succeed by booting some kanotix, starting qtparted, resizing ntfs (I dare!) - and voila: I got the space Skolelinux needs. (Sometimes it is admittedly necessary to defrag from within windows.) Now, going for a "dense" (i.e. comprehensive) howto, I wonder which of these three options are feasable, recommendable, sensible: 1. Give Debian-Installer the feature to shrink ntfs partitions within manually partitioning: What is needed in terms of work and in terms of space? 2. Provide a separate LiveCD version of Skolelinux including qtparted and knx-hdinstall: This approach has many pros, but a live CD will always differ from the schools' desktop then. 3. Recommend a LiveCD containing tools (like qtparted) to shrink ntfs. This LiveCD, then should be of minimum size (<200 MB). Maybe it even doesn't need an X - ncurses could suffice as UI. Now, I expect your comments eagerly ;) Regards Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
