[aclug-L] Re: XP / Linux dualboot

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmm... that's not an entirely bad idea.  I'm not sure if I want to invest
money in this work computer, though... it has a 30gb HD that I really don't
have any reason to fill otherwise... so I might as well use it if I can. 
I'll keep that option in mind though.


On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 04:16:59PM -0600, Donald King wrote:
> 
> 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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