[clue-tech] how much room?

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Thursday 20 November 2008 03:05:18 pm Peter Kuykendall wrote:
> Try this guide:
>
> http://www.bold-fortune.com/forums/index.php?showforum=13

Wow,  there's a lot of stuff in there...!

> ----- 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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