Re: Linux plus XP

[Danny Sauer <cloudmaster@cloudmaster.com>]

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.

I'm pretty sure that Mandrake supports resizing NTFS partitions, too.  According 
to http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html, anyway...

--Danny


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