On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 07:26:09PM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: > I am probably going to buy a lappy in the next few weeks and it will > inevitably come with that toy OS on it. > > Having paid good money for it I am disinclined to blow it away totally > so I want to be able to cram it into a corner of the disk and give the > rest over to a real OS. > > What are ppls recommendations for partitioning software - preferably > FOSS that will handle XP with either NTFS or VFAT?
I just used the Debian installer in Ubuntu Hoary, and was able to say "resize this partition down to this size", and the NTFS partition on which resided my (as yet unactivated) XP Pro install was suddenly a lot less greedy. - Matt
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