On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 01:27:34PM -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 14:48 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > Craig White wrote: > > > On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 14:10 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > > > >> I've acquired a computer with a 40 gig hard drive with > > >> one NTFS partition and XP installed. Can I somehow repartition > > >> it to reduce the XP partition to a minimum using the F-10 live cd? > > >> Or should I forget that and install an additional drive for F-10? > > >> > > > ---- > > > 40 Gb is not very large. I wouldn't suggest that you have XP with too > > > much less than 20 Gb but the installer can indeed shrink the NTFS > > > partition on the fly during installation and use the space made > > > available for Linux. > > > > > > I would suggest that you use the Windows tools to 'defragment' the XP > > > installation first unless that is a fairly clean, unused XP > > > installation. > > > > > > Craig > > > > > > > > > Yes, I already ran the "defrag" on Xp and it found nothing > > to do as I expected since it is a new install on a used box. > > I have no use for Windows but I keep throwing Windows installations > > away and it seemed like I ought to keep one. It also came with > > an re-installation cd which I assume would permit me to rescue > > the windows install if I hose it, should I want to. > > > > I was thinking more like 10 gigs for Windows. It doesn't occupy > > but a small part of the drive now and I don't plan on using it for > > anything ... > > > > I didn't realize the Fedora installer could re-size the Windows partition > > but I will have a try at it. > > > ---- > 10 is too small...suggest at least 12. My new Acer Aspire One with WinXP > SP3, OpenOffice 3, AVG Free Anti-Virus, Acrobat Reader, Flash, Firefox, > Thunderbird, iTunes (no data) is just a hair under 10 Gb so I doubt you > will have much space left. > Given the price of disks and disk size upgrades leave the windows disk for windows and dedicate a disk for linux. On windows laptops I have started buying a 'monster' disk to replace the vendor disk. Simple backup tools let me backup windows and reinstall it in the front of the new disk. I have kept the old disk to include with warranty repair returns, bios updates and other. i.e. the price of a 300GB disk is about the price of XP... and sadly resume services and hiring managers like windows tools to the exclusion of other tools. I was once told to send my reports as .txt files... All that was missing was the .txt at the end of the file. A text file without .txt was not a text file to that individual. And now that apple has backed off the DRM a enough I have become a fan of iTunes and keep a windows partition for it alone. -- T o m M i t c h e l l Found me a new hat, now what? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
