Mandrake, RH and SuSe will reposition a MS XP drive with OUT use of Partition
Magic and do an excelent job.
Partition Magic's latest version doedNOT work well with XP.
I know.
I have it.
I tried it.
So you wind up making a partition for linux with Partition Magic and then
repartipitioning with Mandrake, SuSE, RH.
Big pain in the ass.
If you are using some distribution besides RH, SuSE or Mandrake I have no
knowledge of the issues involved.
One word of caution you can partition a drive with SuSE or RH and install
either.
If you don't like one you can then install the other.
But! If you install Mandrake you can not go back to RH or SuSE without
repositioning the HD.
Personally I have Mandrake installed on this Thinkpad because
1. most of the people on the Thinkpad list use Mandrake
and
2. because I hate the Bluecurve which you could not get rid of in the RH
version I had when the Bluecurve came out.
Frank
On Thursday 26 June 2003 20:22, Mark Polhamus wrote:
> Frank:
>
> I have used Partition Magic 5.0 to non-destructively repartition a drive
> pre-installed with Windows and install Linux for multi-boot on a couple of
> different PCs (Win98se/Linux, WinMe/Win2000/Linux). What problems are you
> talking about?
>
> Does Mandrake (or anyone else besides Partition Magic) have a
> non-destructive repartition program that is production quality?
>
>
> -- Mark Polhamus
>
> Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> > YES NONE
> >
> > Unless you want problems.
> >
> > Use the partition program in RH, SuSE, or Mandrake.
> >
> > Frank
> >
> > On Thursday 26 June 2003 15:42, Bradley Brown wrote:
> >>Is there a particular version that needs to be used with xp pro?
> >>Bradley
> >>
> >>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net]On Behalf Of Rock
> >>>Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 12:57 PM
> >>>To: slug@nks.net
> >>>Subject: RE: [SLUG] Dual-boot laptop
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>With partition Magic you shouldn't have to wipe your hard drive. Or am
> >>>I getting into this thread a bit too late?
> >>>
> >>>Michael C. Rock
> >>>Systems Analyst
> >>>Registered Linux User # 287973
> >>>
> >>>"The time has come the walrus said to speak of many things,,,"
> >>>"Christians give up what they cannot keep to gain what they cannot lose"
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net] On Behalf Of Levi
> >>>Bard
> >>>Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 12:43 PM
> >>>To: slug@nks.net
> >>>Subject: Re: [SLUG] Dual-boot laptop
> >>>
> >>>>To
> >>>>do it correctly, you're going to need to wipe out your windows
> >>>>installation, repartition your hard drive giving far more space to
> >>>
> >>>linux
> >>>
> >>>>(humour me please) and reinstall windows, then linux in their
> >>>
> >>>respective
> >>>
> >>>>partitions.
> >>>
> >>>Sure, if you're provided with actual install media instead of a "rescue
> >>>disk."
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Levi
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