On Sunday 06 April 2003 01:24, Dave Griffiths wrote: > On Sat, 05 Apr 2003 23:31:14 +0100 > > iriXx <m@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxx
