-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 September 9, 2003 01:40 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > 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
You're right cmg. It's Freeware. It's also a boot manager, and it's amazingly good IMHO. But maybe only for people that already (at least) semi-understand partitioning, or are willing to do some reading. You have to set _everything_ manually, or did the last time I used it 2 or 3 years ago. That's OK since his "tutorial" on the web site is not bad. If it's still there. You can do 'practice runs' too until you're comfortable. http://www.ranish.com/ The partition manager links from: http://www.ranish.com/part/ Just two more in far too many bookmarks I've accumulated over the years. Good luck! Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-6mdk 15:11:41 up 1 day, 16:41, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.16, 0.14 "I'd love to go out with you, but my favorite commercial is on TV." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/XkSCG11CaRuZZSIRAlyKAJ97sJgSyNesRwuoFujIh/h0VL/ItQCgoNVa Bt95DdSYkjlDYADDea70RZ0= =lb8J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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