On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 08:12 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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? > > -- > Howard. > LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people > <http://lannet.com.au>
If you get a dell, and there are lots of nice things about dell plus a few uuugh price ease of setup compatibility heat generation (the centrino's are better) then 1) you buy it 2) return winders for munnie ($80 as I recall) Call Dell -- james <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
