[Cooker] NTFS resizing works inRC1

2003-03-15 Thread Esko Kauppinen
Howdy! Just bought a new laptop (Fujitsu Siemens Amilo 2,53 GHz) which had WindowsXP installed on a 40 Gb single partitioned NTFS drive. I installed Mdk 9.1 RC2, resized the drive appr. to half and half. Installation was almost perfect, first time didn't see my mouse and hanged after resizing b

Re: [Cooker] NTFS resizing works inRC1

2003-03-07 Thread Olivier Blin
> Mandrake 9.1RC1 not works fine, no connetion to > internet through SiS 900-Base PCI fast Eternet > Adapter, no sound with Avance AC'97 Audio (run > artswrapper as root,answer: can not access device ..., > busy). Try to pass "noapic" to the kernel, it helps for some motherboards with SiS900 chips

Re: [Cooker] NTFS resizing works inRC1

2003-03-03 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Penlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mandrake 9.1RC1 not works fine, no connetion to internet through SiS > 900-Base PCI fast Eternet Adapter, no sound with Avance AC'97 Audio > (run artswrapper as root,answer: can not access device ..., busy). you should not work as root. as for the error messag

[Cooker] NTFS resizing works inRC1

2003-03-02 Thread Penlap
Please excuse my english, I used NTFS resizing in 9.1RC1 to shrunk a ntfs partition. I had first without success mandrake 8.2 in my computer. After that Partition Magic 8.0 won't aible to resize the NTFS partition. Some people told me that lilo could be the cause. There were 1 ntfs partition 55GB,

Re: [Cooker] NTFS resizing works inRC1

2003-02-27 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Thursday 27 de February 2003 14:23, John Keller wrote: > Felix Miata wrote: > > If NTFS is the partition type, then naming either no program or the > > right program might be a good idea. Scandisk is WinDOS. AFAIK, NTFS > > isn't accessible to WinDOS. > > Whoops -- good catch. I was simply tryin

Re: [Cooker] NTFS resizing works inRC1

2003-02-27 Thread John Keller
Felix Miata wrote: > If NTFS is the partition type, then naming either no program or the > right program might be a good idea. Scandisk is WinDOS. AFAIK, NTFS > isn't accessible to WinDOS. Whoops -- good catch. I was simply trying to comine other suggestions, instead of checking first. It's called

Re: [Cooker] NTFS resizing works inRC1

2003-02-26 Thread Felix Miata
John Keller wrote: > I'm not sure about the e-mail address, since some users may assume that any > errors are the resizer's fault when it could be on the NT/XP side. But that > would be Mandrake Legal's decision... > I liked elements of the others, including John Allen's. > I propose (in two p

Re: [Cooker] NTFS resizing works inRC1

2003-02-26 Thread John Keller
Leon Brooks wrote: > On Wednesday 26 February 2003 04:17 am, Pixel wrote: > > Szakacsits Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Pixel, it may make sense to present this information to the user at > >> some point in some way not to scare them to death later on, e.g. (in > >> non-native English):

Re: [Cooker] NTFS resizing works inRC1

2003-02-26 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 04:17 am, Pixel wrote: > Szakacsits Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Pixel, it may make sense to present this information to the user at >> some point in some way not to scare them to death later on, e.g. (in >> non-native English): "Please note, for extra safet

Re: [Cooker] NTFS resizing works inRC1

2003-02-25 Thread John Allen
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 23:11, Buchan Milne wrote: > On 25 Feb 2003, Pixel wrote: > > Szakacsits Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Pixel, it may make sense to present this information to the user at > > > some point in some way not to scare them to death later on, e.g. (in > > > non-na

Re: [Cooker] NTFS resizing works inRC1

2003-02-25 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Tuesday 25 de February 2003 20:11, Buchan Milne wrote: > On 25 Feb 2003, Pixel wrote: > > Szakacsits Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Pixel, it may make sense to present this information to the user at > > > some point in some way not to scare them to death later on, e.g. (in > > > non

Re: [Cooker] NTFS resizing works inRC1

2003-02-25 Thread Buchan Milne
On 25 Feb 2003, Pixel wrote: > Szakacsits Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Pixel, it may make sense to present this information to the user at > > some point in some way not to scare them to death later on, e.g. (in > > non-native English): "Please note, for extra safety NTFS consistency

Re: [Cooker] NTFS resizing works inRC1

2003-02-25 Thread Pixel
Szakacsits Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pixel, it may make sense to present this information to the user at > some point in some way not to scare them to death later on, e.g. (in > non-native English): "Please note, for extra safety NTFS consistency > check is scheduled to run when you b

Re: [Cooker] NTFS resizing works inRC1

2003-02-25 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On 25 Feb 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 13:56, Mike Richardson wrote: > > > > Clean XP Pro install on a 20G drive, resized to 10G. Unallocating maximum 50% is far the most general case. Windows puts metadata in the middle of the filesystem that neither the defragmenters (th

Re: [Cooker] NTFS resizing works inRC1

2003-02-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 13:56, Mike Richardson wrote: > Wahey! > > Clean XP Pro install on a 20G drive, resized to 10G. XP ran chkdsk on > first boot but after that was fine. Yeah, the ntfs utils currently mark NTFS partitions "dirty" after doing almost anything to them, just so that if they do do

Re: [Cooker] NTFS resizing works inRC1

2003-02-25 Thread Ilya Pobelov
Same. Win 2000 Professional SP3 Rus 100 Mb NTFS resized to 62 Mb I also had chkdsk at first boot, but no errors were found. -- With best regards. Ilya V. Pobelov, Ph. D. student Moscow State University Faculty of Chemistry Department of Electrochemistry

[Cooker] NTFS resizing works inRC1

2003-02-25 Thread Mike Richardson
Wahey! Clean XP Pro install on a 20G drive, resized to 10G. XP ran chkdsk on first boot but after that was fine. Mike -- -Plain text only please - attachments stripped on arrival.-- Copyright 2002 Mike Richardson, Room G98, Manchester Computing University of Manchester, M13 9PL