On Tuesday 09 September 2003 12:54 pm, Anarky wrote: > John Richard Smith wrote: > > Anarky wrote: > >> I was wondering if you know of some bootable linux cds/floppys > >> which could be used for preparing a windows hdd for a Linux install? > >> I know 9.2 had resizing of NTFS (don't know about fat32) .. but still > >> if I wanted to install 9.1 at someobody's place it'd be weird if I'd > >> insert the 9.2 cd, get to the resizing of the partition ... then > >> suddenly reboot when that's about done ... and then insert the 9.1 > >> cds. What do u do? > >> greetz, > > > > The gentoo boot disc can do all of that for you and more. > > really? can you resize & move windows partitions? if so .. is there by > any chance a link or something to a mini-cd download that could do just > that and then I could get back to installing Mandrake?
FWIW, there is a Windows-based alternative to Partition Magic called Ranish Partition Manager that is reported to work quite well, although I've never used it. Not sure if it is freeware or shareware. -- cmg
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