On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 05:34:53 -0400 Lee Wiggers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snips> > Just got a new Dell 1100 last week. Love it. > > I did off the 1/2 ton of strange Dell and MS software and loaded > win2k first. > > Then I did the 9.1 install, resized the drive there and added a > small fat32 partition to buffer exchanges between ntfs and xfs. > > By far the best laptop experience I've had. > > BTW the win2k install 8 hrs. 9.1 install 1.5 hrs not counting > massive update. > > The only panic was when win2k didn't recognize the mkd fat32 > partition. I closed my eyes, hoped that it wasn't talking about the > whole mdk partition(s) and reformatted. It did well and both os's > see and use the fat32 fine. > > My original thought was to resize with Part Magic but I only have an > older version. Femme warned me not to use it. > > > Lee > > > if you have PM 6+ you'll be ok... for just windows partitions. If you want it to make linux parts, forget it & fair warning: It will see *any* partition that is NOT Ext2 and mark the whole drive "BAD" & attempt tofix it!
don't know if they fixed that fuckup in PM8+ yet... Thats why I said not to use it. FemmaStoned
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