[clue-tech] how much room?

[Peter Kuykendall]

It takes a lot of bloated code to strip out all of that bloated code. :)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at verizon.net>
To: "CLUE tech" <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [clue-tech] how much room?


> 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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