Re: [SLUG] Repartitioning XP to support dual booting...
Quoting jam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Insert ubuntu CD, boot live, choose install, manual partition, shrink partition ... Ok thanks for that... (everyone) I haven't installed it that way for a long time and didn't know it worked. David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Repartitioning XP to support dual booting...
On Saturday 15 March 2008 09:21:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Are there any viable alternatives within FOSS ? > >> > >> My friends in germany all say go buy the windows tool.. > >> > >> are they right ? or is there another way ? > > > > Pretty much buncome. It JustWorks right up to a few day old purchase > > of Xp SP2 > > ok - no problem... > > so which tool reliably does it ? > > ie cfdisk etc ? I do this as pain and punishment, when asked to help ... so I choose the easiest way ... Insert ubuntu CD, boot live, choose install, manual partition, shrink partition ... James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Repartitioning XP to support dual booting...
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 4:43 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Are there any viable alternatives within FOSS ? > >> > >> My friends in germany all say go buy the windows tool.. > >> > >> are they right ? or is there another way ? > > > > > > Pretty much buncome. It JustWorks right up to a few day old purchase > > of Xp SP2 > > > > ok - no problem... > > so which tool reliably does it ? > > ie cfdisk etc ? > The debian Etch installer did this for me out of the box. Check about the installer of the particular distro you intend to use. Otherwise, sys rescue cd can probably do this. --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Repartitioning XP to support dual booting...
Are there any viable alternatives within FOSS ? My friends in germany all say go buy the windows tool.. are they right ? or is there another way ? Pretty much buncome. It JustWorks right up to a few day old purchase of Xp SP2 ok - no problem... so which tool reliably does it ? ie cfdisk etc ? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Repartitioning XP to support dual booting...
On Friday 14 March 2008 12:40:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 12:13 +1100, Martin Visser wrote: > >> Just a reminder if you want to help out at the 'Gong Uni installfest > >> we could still do with a 2 or 3 more volunteers to help assist > >> tomorrow > > I am told that XP now has some additional checks internally > which make it a lot harder to run dual boot windows/linux; > especially on notebooks. > > As I understand it, there is some extra information that > needs to be adjusted on a partition and this requires a > program such as provided by acronis. > > Are there any viable alternatives within FOSS ? > > My friends in germany all say go buy the windows tool.. > > are they right ? or is there another way ? Pretty much buncome. It JustWorks right up to a few day old purchase of Xp SP2 James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Repartitioning XP to support dual booting...
Quoting Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 12:13 +1100, Martin Visser wrote: Just a reminder if you want to help out at the 'Gong Uni installfest we could still do with a 2 or 3 more volunteers to help assist tomorrow I am told that XP now has some additional checks internally which make it a lot harder to run dual boot windows/linux; especially on notebooks. As I understand it, there is some extra information that needs to be adjusted on a partition and this requires a program such as provided by acronis. Are there any viable alternatives within FOSS ? My friends in germany all say go buy the windows tool.. are they right ? or is there another way ? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
