Thanks to everyone who gave me advice on this.
ntfsresize worked like a charm. I downloaded that and put it on a
floppy, then I did a clean install of XP, defragmented it just in
case, booted a RH 8.0 CD in rescue mode, and ran ntfsresize off the
floppy. (After running ntfsresize you have to
My girlfriend recently bought a computer, a Compaq Presario 6000,
and the first thing I tried to do was set it up to dual boot Linux.
(Though she didn't previously have a computer, she's a programmer who
uses AIX at work, and was quite excited by the prospect of getting C,
perl, python, etc.
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From: Danny Yee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 8:46 AM
Subject: [SLUG] XP dual boot debacle
My girlfriend recently bought a computer, a Compaq Presario 6000,
and the first thing I tried to do was set it up to dual boot Linux
On Wednesday 22 Jan 2003 8:46 am, Danny Yee wrote:
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any way around this? (As far as I can tell, parted and FIPS won't
resize NTFS partitions -- is there some other way of doing that?)
And is it worth complaining to Compaq (or the ACCC) about this?
The latest version of Partition Magic
this helps.
Brett
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: My girlfriend recently bought a computer, a Compaq Presario
Danny,
When I did this I did it the other way around. Put Xp on first. Create an
empty partition (fat32 is best) then install redhat to the empty partition. I
used partition magic as it does resize ntfs partitions non destructively. Then using
you favourite boot manager it should all
