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. development tools.)
I did a RedHat 8.0 install, repartitioning the 80gig hard drive, leaving 50gig for Windows and using the rest for Linux. There were some problems -- the modem wasn't detected and I fear it's some kind of evil WinModem -- but I got everything basically working. When I went to reinstall Windows, however, I found that the restore CD insisted on reformatting the entire hard drive! Aaarrrgh. Is there 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? Danny. -------------------------------------------------------- http://dannyreviews.com/ - over six hundred book reviews http://danny.oz.au/ - free speech, free software, travel -------------------------------------------------------- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
