On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 11:36 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 12/02/07, Harry Giles <hg57@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am going to try installing on my laptop, a HP Pavilion dv9000. > > > > My question is, does Fedora have a way during install to resize my XP > > partition, or do I have to do it seperately? > > > > TIA > > > > Harry G > > > > While you're proabably best off resizing the XP partition and leaving > the rest as blank space on the disk using Windows-based tools, let me > present to you another option: > > Backup all your user files and then install Fedora on the whole disk. > I've not looked back since I switched from XP to Fedora when it was > still Core 3, and it's only improved since then. Your mp3's, .doc's, > jpg's, mpeg's, and everything else will still be usable on Fedora, as > well as your firefox profile if you save it. Unless you use some > obscure-function program that has no Linux equivelent, then you will > find that your XP partition only wastes disk space. > > Dotan Cohen > > http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/519/yello.html > http://lishon.com > Never having trusted re-partitioning disks I have however recently been using a live gparted cd gparted-livecd-0.3.3-0 http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php I have used it on my neighbour's XP machine and he is still talking to me! You MUST backup all important data just in case! gparted is also available on FC6-live CD http://fedoraunity.org/news-archives/fedora-core-6-zod-live-spins-released John
