Knoppix ?

On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 16:16, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
> Problem:
> o 15 members of the University's IT Department want to 
>   be taught how to install Linux.
> o I said I'd learn them Linux.
> o They want to know how to dual-boot.
> o The machines I have to teach on have one (1, I, 
>   00000001) NTFS partition, of around 70 GB, with no 
>   free space.
> o The RedHat 8 installer (anaconda) will not resize the 
>   NTFS partition.  I tried both "Automatic" and "Disk 
>   Druid" modes.
> o The University does not have Partition Magic.
> o Gnu Parted (and possibly "fdisk") could be used to 
>   resize a partition, but you would no know if you are 
>   about to wipe some data, which has been placed at the 
>   end of the partition for a very good reason.
> 
> Ok.  I need a simple solution that preserves XP, and has the least room
> for error.
> 
> Any takers?
> -- 
> Michael JasonSmith      http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/


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