[clue-tech] how much room?

[Peter Kuykendall]

Try this guide:

http://www.bold-fortune.com/forums/index.php?showforum=13



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at verizon.net>
To: "CLUE tech" <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:36 PM
Subject: [clue-tech] how much room?


>I saw some discussion go by in here recently about a laptop coming with XP 
>and
> dealing with that...
>
> I'm in a similar situation here.  I had one laptop,  an older unit with 
> some
> pretty limited resources (mostly too small a HD),  and not too long ago
> acquired this one I'm currently typing on,  which came with XP installed.
>
> I've really no interest in actually *using* any m$ products personally,
> having had to put up with enough crap on many versions of it over the 
> years
> that once I got linux up and running way back in 1999 I've pretty much 
> used
> only linux ever since.  I've even installed it on other machines in the
> household here and gotten other folks to use it,  too,  over some
> objections.  :-)
>
> However I've had the occasional idle thought that it might be good for me 
> to
> have XP on some box somewhere,  just to be able to refer to it or maybe 
> run
> an app that wouldn't run any other way or whatever the case may be.  So I
> decided to leave it on this box,  though with way less space than the 
> whole
> drive it was using to begin with.
>
> I started out getting a free burner program that somebody recommended, 
> and
> downloaded and burned myselfa set of Slackware 12.1 discs and also 
> gparted,
> which worked quite nicely.  I shrunk the XP partition down to 3G,  did my
> install,  and so far so good.  Of course XP complained the first time I 
> fired
> it up but after a bit of cleanup that complaint went away.
>
> My question is,  how much smaller can I make that partition?  What all can 
> I
> rip out of there that I won't need,  to give me some more space?  I 
> somehow
> ended up with no swap partition,  and I'd like to correct that before I
> invest too much time in this setup,  for one thing,  and want the ext3
> partition to get most of what's available here.
>
> No,  I don't want to just lose XP entirely here,  and I sure as heck don't
> want to dedicate another machine to it.  You guys have any other 
> suggestions?
>
>
>
>
>
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