On Sun, February 11, 2007 10:41 pm, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On 2/11/07, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My wife is buying a new laptop for her work. She wants not to leave >> Linux >> behind, but needs the windoze. Everything is Vista now (apparently the >> sales person wasn't even enthusiastic, but watcha gonna do?). >> >> Is there any problem in defragging and using fips to chamge the HD >> partitions in Vista? >> > The machine has an 80 G HD. I figure 50 G for M$, 30 G for FC 5. >> Comments? > > I think that fips is so last-century. > > Probably your best bet is the Gnome partition editor gparted. > Available as a handout at installfests if I am there. > > Available for download at < http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ > > > carl > -- > carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does this assume a Linux platform on which to run? Guess I have to go look. The "Gnome" part doesn't inspire confidence that it can be run before Linux is installed. Did fips stop working for some Y2K reason? -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
