Seth Cohn wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Bob Miller wrote:
>
> > Anne's new laptop is a Dell Lattitude LS. It has a 12 Gb disk, which
> > is partitioned like this.
> >
> > hda1 15 Mb type 222
> > hda2 11491 Mb NTFS (or HPFS)
> >
> > She'd like to make it dual-boot between Win2K and Linux. What tools
> > are available to shrink the NTFS partition without erasing it? We
> > want to make it dual-boot Linux, of course...
>
> Partition Magic will...
> System Commander will
> make sure you use the latest version....
Okay, so I blew that off. Anne copied her files to another machine.
She can restore them later.
This laptop is the first machine I've seen with one of the Windows
Recovery CDs that created such an uproar a while ago.
After trying a lot of things that didn't work, I found out that the
LoserDOS Recovery CD will install onto whatever partitions it finds,
so I used the Mandrake installer to create two 6 Gb partitions,
then I "recovered" LD2K onto one of them.
So now I have LoserDOS2000 and Mandrake 7.1 dual-booting, and I've
gotten X working. Mandrake installer insisted on 480x640 as a default
resolution, and the Dell's keyboard can't type CTL-ALT-Keypad-Plus
or CTL-ALT-Keypad-Minus.
I'm going to punt on sound (if it were my machine, I'd want sound, but
Anne always turns it off anyway).
Anyway, it's a nice machine. Not as nice as my VAIO, but... (-:
I can't wait until the mainstream HW vendors start supporting Linux.
Laptops are always a pain to install.
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