Re: Linux plus XP

[Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us>]

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003 mike808@users.sourceforge.net wrote:

> Erich Schroeder wrote:
> > Later today I'll be doing my first installation on a machine to 
> > dual-boot with XP. Anyone know of any particular gotchas I should worry 
> > about? It'll be RH 9.
> 
> Ben replied:
> > I installed XP first and left empty space for Linux.
> 
> This is critical unless RH9 now includes a partition resizer for XP
> partitions. In November, Xandros was the first and only distro to include 
> this feature out-the-box. I think SuSE 8.1 now has it as well.
> 
> The ability to resize an XP partition during install is crucial if you
> are on a system where the slathered XP over the entire disk.
> 
> Mike808/
> 

This was something I was wondering about, but it turns out that the person 
has a copy of partition magic(r), so I hope to use that. Now I'm not sure 
she's around this afternoon so it may be a couple'a days before I get to 
it. 

Looking at the RH9 docs, I don't think that it supports resizing XP 
partitions, they still say to use parted.

eks

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