Smith, Cathy wrote: > One option is to boot from an Ubuntu or Knoppix CD and have a running > environment without installing anything.
I'm nominally past that stage. I've a bunch of "live CD's. I've several that seem to offer promise after running them from a CD. Now is time for a 'real world' test. background - 30 some years ago as a Construction Inspector I served as a witness to an acceptance test of a backup generator - ever see multi-MW capable source go to ground through a 1 in wide thin piece of copper ;/ I learned to be cautious. > > --- > Cathy L. Smith > IT Engineer > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe Niski > Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 9:03 AM > To: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Tame Windows to permit Linux space - HOW? > > On 1/26/12 8:54 AM, "Richard Owlett"<[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I wish to give Linux a try on my laptop (IBM/Lenovo T43) with 40GB >> drive and 23GB free. >> Should be fine for dual boot ;) LOL The problem is MS defagerrer leaves >> a large clump of files in midst of my so-called "free space". >> >> Any way to move it where it belongs? > > i seem to remember that if you boot from a GParted live CD, it can resize > your Windows partition without damaging anything. > ________________________________________ > Joe Shisei Niski > Portland, Oregon, USA > 至誠 > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
