On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:17, Jonas Widarsson wrote: > Tom Wesley wrote: > > >On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 20:16, Jonas Widarsson wrote: > > > > > >>I have an Acer Aspire 1703 SM laptop. > >>I think the HD is an ordinary one, like those in stationary computers. > >>I don't know much about how todays harddrives behave, so I'm wondering > >>whether someone has recent experience in splitting the 80 GB primary > >>fat23 partition (the only partition there is) so I can keep the existing > >>winXP home install and install gentoo on the end of those 80 GB and then > >>have a dual boot XP / Gentoo? > >> > >>If so, what utility is recommended? > >> > >>Jonas > >> > >>-- > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > >> > >> > > > >I believe Windows XP can do this itself. If you right click on My > >Computer, select Manage there is disk management in there. I don't have > >an XP machine to hand, so I can't check. > > > Well, Couldn't do anything there. > Running XP home by default from Acer. Maybe that functionality is > disabled...
I have to confess to not having a single XP Home PC. > > >Whilst you're there you'd be > >better running XP on NTFS, as it really is quicker, but keep in mind the > >relatively limited NTFS write support Linux currently has. > > > > > Well... XP home does not support NTFS. > Believe it or not. MS philosophy is great isn' it? Err, I'm surprised, but somehow I find it believable... > > >(If you need to share data between the XP and Linux it is very normal to > >have an NTFS Windows partition, FAT32 data partition and ext2/3, reiser > >etc for Linux.) > > > > > Sounds reasonable. > > Maybe I should tell you that I have done this before, with disks a LOT > smaller than this one and utilities bundled with the distro (mandrake). > This is why I'm a little careful. I am not so sure whether the drive > size affects the result of a fips operation. > > And that's why I would like to see someone already tested this on newer > systems. > It took me some decent amount of time to setup the XP environment to > suit my needs, so I wouldn't want to do that again unless I have to. Although it's NTFS support isn't great, you might like to take a look at partimage to take a backup before you change anything. Although it will only be useful if you have somewhere the laptop can put the backup image, another network-get-at-able Linux PC should be fine. If you need boot CD's with it on, try Knoppix. Other than that I should probably stick my nose out, as I have little XP Home experience. (Anyone jealous?) -- Tom Wesley
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