RE: [SLUG] SuSE on a Thinkpad

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Mon Jul 05 2004 - 01:52:40 EDT


On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 wchast@utilpart.com wrote:

> Eben King wrote:
> > I got really sick of XP, and I got that nifty DVD from Novell with
> > SuSE
> > 9.1 on it, so I went ahead, shrunk XP's partition, repartitioned the
> > HD, and put SuSE Linux on there.
>
> What did you use to shrink the partition? I assume it was NTFS, or was
> it VFAT?

NTFS: http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html

> I want to do the same thing here on this Toshiba, but it is a company
> machine so do not want to screw it up, but sure would like to have
> Linux on it for when I get board out of my skull from looking and windoz
> funnies. Also give me a place to run Star Office or Open office and
> Evolution in stead of MS office and Nolook... Look ma no viri or other
> MS sickies... B-]

Maybe a live distro (run from CD) or VMware?

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