----- "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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
