We're not scaring away but posting what one thinks is a definitive install guide on a mailing list and having others lob comments back and forth about it isn't all the productive. If anything, we can type up a somewhat comprehensive install guide on our website. Remind me to do that when my kid doesn't need a diaper or bottle every 2 hours.
And yes, defrag is THAT screwed up. A badly fragmented drive may take a half a dozen passes to truly see a difference. The example I give clients is telling a kid to clean their room. At first they pick up the general trash. You tell them to clean their room again then they pick up their clothes and put them on their bed. Again you say, and then they start to actually put things where they belong. Sensible? That be all, Mr O. --- On Thu, 4/7/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] HOWTO Dual boot Windows Linux laptop PLEASE SEE > WARNINGS IN THE COMMENT > To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, April 7, 2011, 6:25 PM > ----- "Mr O" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hey, if you're on the mailing list and you can't > install Linux then > > you might be in the wrong place! > > Gack! Let us not push away beginners. We're > about helping > people, right? > > My first install was RH5.2. I don't remember what > year that was. > > > As for what MS did, it is called "NTFS". Newer > versions of Parted > > handle things near flawless as long as their isn't a > physical > > problem. > > Oh, right! The dual boot installs I did way back when > were > on FAT systems. And hell, back then Linux couldn't > really > handle NTFS at all. > > > One safe word of advice, before resizing run chkdsk on > your NTFS > > partitions to get everything in good order. Also, > defrag a few times > > if you've been running a Windows system for a while > before resizing. > > > > That be all, > > Mr O. > > Is defrag really so brain damaged that it has to be run > more > than once for full effect? Sheesh! > -- > Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ > If you have any trouble sounding condescending, > find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --- > Scott Adams > > > > --- On Thu, 4/7/11, [email protected] > <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > From: [email protected] > <[email protected]> > > > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] HOWTO Dual boot Windows > Linux laptop PLEASE > > SEE WARNINGS IN THE COMMENT > > > To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <[email protected]> > > > Date: Thursday, April 7, 2011, 1:34 PM > > > It appears that Mark Phelps was > > > responding to some web page that > > > we have not seen. Certainly it's not applicable > to > > > anything > > > that was posted here. > > > > > > Nevertheless I'm curious. > > > Does anybody know what MS has done to make their > system so > > > easy to corrupt if we let Linux resize it's > installed > > > partition? > > > -- > > > Allen Brown abrown at peak.org > > http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ > > > [on hackers] ... they are artists who create > > > because > > > they're incapable of not creating. --- Britt > Blaser > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > EUGLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
