On Friday 13 February 2004 10:18 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > 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
Oh I searched far and wide for a free Partition Manager. Ranish seemed to be a popular one. Unfortunately, it doesn't resize partitions. Only creates, deletes, and all that stuff.
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