On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 20:16, Jonas Widarsson wrote: > I have an Acer Aspire 1703 SM laptop. > I think the HD is an ordinary one, like those in stationary computers. > I don't know much about how todays harddrives behave, so I'm wondering > whether someone has recent experience in splitting the 80 GB primary > fat23 partition (the only partition there is) so I can keep the existing > winXP home install and install gentoo on the end of those 80 GB and then > have a dual boot XP / Gentoo? > > If so, what utility is recommended? > > Jonas > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
I believe Windows XP can do this itself. If you right click on My Computer, select Manage there is disk management in there. I don't have an XP machine to hand, so I can't check. Whilst you're there you'd be better running XP on NTFS, as it really is quicker, but keep in mind the relatively limited NTFS write support Linux currently has. (If you need to share data between the XP and Linux it is very normal to have an NTFS Windows partition, FAT32 data partition and ext2/3, reiser etc for Linux.) PS: Don't forget to create the swap partition, I'm always doing that... -- Tom Wesley
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