Re: [Re: [SLUG] newbie to Linux]

2002-04-18 Thread kagemusha
*** I have used Partition Magic (www.powerquest.com) to resize partitions. How is your HDD partitioned at present. Is it just one whole chunk with windows ? What is your HDD size ? To be honest, I don't really know. I think it is one big FAT32. It is definitely only one partition. It is

Re: [Re: [Re: [SLUG] newbie to Linux]]

2002-04-18 Thread Louis Selvon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *** I have used Partition Magic (www.powerquest.com) to resize partitions. How is your HDD partitioned at present. Is it just one whole chunk with windows ? What is your HDD size ? To be honest, I don't really know. I think it is one big FAT32. It is definitely

RE: [SLUG] newbie to Linux

2002-04-18 Thread Grant Street
Hi Thirdly, I have a largish HDD, and rather than re-format the whole thing, if I could somehow 'create' a multiboot with Linux/Windoze over my existing system, it would be better. I've heard lots of different stuff, the upshot was that most say you can't, and one guy said you can,

Re: [SLUG] newbie to Linux

2002-04-18 Thread andrew fries
On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 15:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Secondly, are there any decent DVD drivers out there that will allow me to watch my vast collection of DVD's (one disk) on my computer and on my TV through the NVIDIA card? there 4 major DVD players for Linux: mplayer, ogle, xine and

Re: [RE: [SLUG] newbie to Linux]

2002-04-18 Thread Louis Selvon
Grant Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Thirdly, I have a largish HDD, and rather than re-format the whole thing, if I could somehow 'create' a multiboot with Linux/Windoze over my existing system, it would be better. I've heard lots of different stuff, the upshot was that most say you

Re: [SLUG] newbie to Linux

2002-04-18 Thread Matthew Hannigan
I've seen xine running quite nicely on a compaq laptop dvd. It was even bug compatible to a dvd player on win-xp! (didn't show some menus) andrew fries wrote: On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 15:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Secondly, are there any decent DVD drivers out there that will allow me to

Re: [SLUG] newbie to Linux

2002-04-17 Thread slindsay
..Thirdly, I have a largish HDD, and rather than re-format the whole thing, if I could somehow 'create' a multiboot with Linux/Windoze over my existing system, it would be better. I've heard lots of different stuff, the upshot was that most say you can't, and one guy said you can, with

Re: [Re: [SLUG] newbie to Linux]

2002-04-17 Thread Louis Selvon
..Thirdly, I have a largish HDD, and rather than re-format the whole thing, if I could somehow 'create' a multiboot with Linux/Windoze over my existing system, it would be better. I've heard lots of different stuff, the upshot was that most say you can't, and one guy said you can, with Partition