[clue-talk] WinXP Dual Boot?

[Matt Thompson]

Richard C. Savage wrote:
> I've previously installed various flavors of Linux (Fedora 2, RH 8, 9, 
> 6) on older machines that had VFAT hard drives.
> 
> However,  my newer machines came with WinXP installed, with an 80GB NTFS 
> file system. The (old) fips utility I had for partitioning a hard drive 
> doesn't work on NTFS. Descriptions on the web say Mandrake Linux 9.1 and 
> later come with an included utility (called NTFS), as part of the 
> installation routine, that allows non-destructive partitioning of a NTFS 
> WinXP HDD.
> 
> Anbody out there had experience with using Mandrake (or anything else) 
> to partition a WinXP NTFS drive?
> Any experience with running Mandrake? If I use Mandrake to partition, it 
> seems reasonable to install it - unless it's grossly inferior to, say, 
> Fedora 2. I presume they offer a dual-boot configuration, with either 
> LILO or GRUB - either is acceptable to me.
> 
> I'm just running desktop personal configurations, not an enterprise 
> outfit, but I'm glad to learn new stuff. Your suggestions gratefully 
> accepted. Thanx.

Yeah, most of the people I know use Knoppix and qtparted (which calls 
ntfsresize, I think).

However, if you are doing this more often than not, it can be a good 
idea to pick up a copy of Partition Magic.  It's $80, but it can resize 
anything safely.  (Well, unless you are one of the dreaded "error 117" 
people, but I think that occurs when you *make* the ext3 partitions in 
PM.  Just don't do that.)

Matt
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