Gidday, Based on the teaching environment (I am assuming the teching room in IT?) I would probably supply the machines with the Windows partition already resised. The support staff who would probably be doing the installations all have access to and (should) know how to use Partition Magic, or can set partition sizes during the windows install with the standard UoC boot disk.
To be honest, I would expect them all to know how to use Pmagic, and just tell them that the Windows part needs to be resised and it is up to them to work out how to (especially if there isno easy way to do it during a linux install). Mind you, doesn't SusE do partition resising on install to a windows machine?? Any idea what it uses? Matthew 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? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew J. Carr Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PC Support Consultant Phone: 364 2987 Advisory Services Ext: 7729 University of Canterbury IT Helpdesk - your first point of contact for IT Services Phone: 364 2060 Extn: 6060 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://selfservice.it.canterbury.ac.nz ----------------------------------------------------------------
