Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] dell latitude cpx, windows (barf!) xp and linux?
From: Jaakko Prättälä (Jaakko.Prattala_AT_helsinki.fi)
Date: Sun Apr 06 2003 - 18:09:15 EDT
On Sunday 06 April 2003 01:24, Dave Griffiths wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Apr 2003 23:31:14 +0100
>
> iriXx <m_AT_irixx.org> wrote:
> > other issue i'm wondering about is installing linux alongside windows
> > (barf!) xp... ughh... i swore i'd never use XP but its come pre
> > installed. borg edition, yuck.... but i need it for work.
> > so i'm thinking maybe with xp being so difficult, running lnx4win
> > might be an idea, but would this be more demanding on system
> > resources? i'd like to partition the drive but im not sure how to go
> > about this on XP... yuk yuk yuk... win2k was easy enough though....
> > *sigh*....
>
> I managed to do this on my laptop - I have XP and linux working dual
> boot (although I haven't booted XP in months - I just keep it cos I had
> to pay for it... )
> The only difficulty is that you have to get a recent version of
> partition magic (8?) to resize the xp ntfs partition - it's a different
> version to win2k.
Or instead of partition magic you could use bootitNG
from http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html
at no cost.
I successfully shrank my ntfs partition with it following the
instructions at
http://www.net42.co.uk/linux-on-xe4500.shtml
-- Jaakko Prättälä Jaakko.Prattala_AT_Helsinki.FI
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