[aclug-L] Re: XP / Linux dualboot

[Donald King <donald_king@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon 05 Nov 2001 03:52, Jonathan Hall wrote:
> Well I just got a new computer at work (yay!).  It's an eMachine (eww!). 
> It runs Windows XP (eww!).  I have the liberty to install Liux (yay!). 
> But I have to keep Windows on it, still (eww!).  The drive is partitioned
> with NTFS (ugh).  FIPS doesn't like NTFS (damn!).  PartitionMagic isn't
> free (damn!).
>
> Is it possible to convert an NTFS partition to FAT32 in XP, run FIPS,
> then convert back?  Or... isn't there a limited versin of PartitionMagic
> that comes with RH (andother distros?)?  Does it support NTFS resizing?
>
> If I can't do either of these, I guess I'll get to repartition then
> reinstall XP... and hope the eMachines restore disk doesn't undo the
> partitions I set up.
>
>
  [.sigsnip]

I would recommend obtaining an older IDE hard drive to install as the slave 
to the existing HDD and install Linux to that drive.  Minimal fuss, and you 
can probably find 10GB drives on the cheap these days.

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