----- "Mr O" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey, if you're on the mailing list and you can't install Linux then
> you might be in the wrong place! 

Gack!  Let us not push away beginners.  We're about helping
people, right?

My first install was RH5.2.  I don't remember what year that was.

> As for what MS did, it is called "NTFS". Newer versions of Parted
> handle things near flawless as long as their isn't a physical
> problem.

Oh, right!  The dual boot installs I did way back when were
on FAT systems.  And hell, back then Linux couldn't really
handle NTFS at all.

> One safe word of advice, before resizing run chkdsk on your NTFS
> partitions to get everything in good order. Also, defrag a few times
> if you've been running a Windows system for a while before resizing.
> 
> That be all,
> Mr O.

Is defrag really so brain damaged that it has to be run more
than once for full effect?  Sheesh!
-- 
Allen Brown  http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
  If you have any trouble sounding condescending,
  find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --- Scott Adams


> --- On Thu, 4/7/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] HOWTO Dual boot Windows Linux laptop PLEASE
> SEE WARNINGS IN THE COMMENT
> > To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <[email protected]>
> > Date: Thursday, April 7, 2011, 1:34 PM
> > It appears that Mark Phelps was
> > responding to some web page that
> > we have not seen.  Certainly it's not applicable to
> > anything
> > that was posted here.
> > 
> > Nevertheless I'm curious.
> > Does anybody know what MS has done to make their system so
> > easy to corrupt if we let Linux resize it's installed
> > partition?
> > -- 
> > Allen Brown  abrown at peak.org 
> http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
> >   [on hackers] ... they are artists who create
> > because
> >   they're incapable of not creating. --- Britt Blaser
> > 
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