Cool... I think the i865GM is the intel chipset that is the heart of "centrino". As for resizing ntfs, I don't think you need a usb memory stick, just run 'qtparted' from a knoppix CD; that worked beautifully for me in recent weeks. Just using qtparted, I was able to both resize and create the new partitions (a FAT, an ext3, and a linxu swap) in a friendly and easy-to-understand GUI -- although I would'nt have a newbie do that without supervision... linux is getting MUCH nicer w.r.t. desktop use, but it'd be nice to have yet another wrapper around qtparted called something like make-my-machine-dual-boot-and-install-linux with minial options to confuse a newbie with. = )
regards, Ben PS - I read about the 865GM chipset on mini-itx.com, there was a review of a mini-itx formfactor board which uses a P4, and they were saying that this was "effectively" a centrino PC b/c it used the 865GM, that all it would need to be "Centrino" is a wireless transmitter... On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:20:35 -0800 Linux Rocks! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Its a Intel Mobile 1.3G Centrino CPU, not sure about the mainboard | chipset, My guess is intel (the video and I/O, ethernet, wireless are | all intel. I have the 5110 model (the big one) not the little one... the | big one was on sale, so I got it insead of the nice little 12" one... So | far I like it... it was a hassle getting linux and windows on it, but | that isnt a hardware issue, its how thier system restore works (wipes | the entire disk instead of the partition...) The issue after that is the | NTFS resize issue. I managed to resize the partiton by using a usb ram | stick, and Knoppix CD ( I put the NTFS tools on ramstick, and booted | knoppix, compiled the tools under knoppix, then ran ntfsresize -s 20G | /dev/hda1 (which turns the 40G NTFS filesystem into a 20G partition. | After that, I had to use (linux) fdisk to remove /dev/hda1, and add | /dev/hda1 (20G), /dev/hda2 (swap), /dev/hda3 (slack root). After that | you reboot, and test your windows partion and make sure its ok (well... | as ok as windows could be), then reboot and install slack as per | usual... | | Jamie | | Ben Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > Doesn't that use a via c3 chipset? As I understand it, most modern | > binaries will not run on the via c3, since it lacks MMX, 3DNow, and SSE | > extensions. I'm not sure that I'm correctly recalling the averatech | > laptop's details.... I think my mini-itx board is waiting for me at | > home, hopefully I'll have it ready to bring to a meeting next week (if | > the case arrives in time!). | > | > regards, | > | > Ben | > | > | > On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:39:55 -0800 | > Linux Rocks! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | > | I'm planning on bringing a new laptop to the meeting tonite... It has | > | windows XP on it, and I want to put SLackware on it too (ive installed | > | slackware on it once, but didnt get much chance to mess with it before | > | Averatec's XP restore utility wiped the entire disk (bad restore | > | utility!) | > | So... The trick it gettting this computer to work with both Linux and | > | Windows seems to be putting windows on first, then resizing the NTFS | > | partition, then installing slackware on the newly unused space. I've | > | downloaded the stuff I should need, maybe (with some help...) I can | > | get slackware on the lappy tonite :) | > | | > | Jamie | > _______________________________________________ | > EuG-LUG mailing list | > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug | _______________________________________________ | EuG-LUG mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug -- _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug