[CLUE-Tech] Help Dual-Boot my Notebook?

Dave Anselmi anselmi at americanisp.net
Thu Sep 13 07:46:53 MDT 2001


Matthew Porter wrote:

> Thanks for the tips.  I took a quick look at the Ranish Partition web
> site, and I'm considering it.  How is it for re-partitioning a drive
> without damaging an existing Windows partition?  How much
> expertise is required? (I've set up Linux systems before, but only
> on brand new hard drives or existing empty partitions; I've never had
> to do a non-destructive re-partition on a drive already in use.)

I've heart that GNU parted is good for resizing partitions.  Haven't used it,
and it's linux so you'd have to be able to boot off floppies to run it.  Maybe
one of the distros has it as part of the install process?

Dave





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