On Friday 13 February 2004 03:38 pm, marc resnick wrote: > On Friday 13 February 2004 03:29 pm, Chuck Mattsen wrote:
>>> whack > I recently installed Mandrake on a 2190US... > No, it won't resize the Windows Partition they made, and you'll need a 3rd > party program. Here's what I suggest. Get Partition magic. Resize the > Windows Partition. Then use the Linux install to auto allocate, and it'll > create the three partitions you need. If you don't want to buy > PM...well..um...definitely don't get an illegal copy...;-) > > Mandrake will configure the boot and all that stuff. After that, just > delete your Windows partition, and everything will be just fine. =) > > Marc Marc: There's a freeware program (Ranish Partition Manager) that is supposed to do everything that PM can do. I've never used it myself, but I've seen lots of good words about it elsewhere. Perhaps that might get Chuck going. Legally. My main reservation is if it will handle the strange stuff that Compaq does. -- cmg
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