[KLUG Members] The adventures of dual boot

[Greg Mason]

what distro are you using?

first time I heard about ntfsresize was when I was doing an install on  
a formerly win xpee machine (my gf's, SHE'S SWITCHED!!! FINALLY!!! :)

in SuSE 8.2 pro, if you use the "rescue" option on the boot menu of the  
first cd, you can get to ntfsresize. I haven't bothered playing with it  
cuz I just nuked windows.

Gateway desktops make nice little penguin-powered boxes (even though  
it's intel-based) everything was supported, except for the crappy  
winmodem, but that doesn't matter, cuz she has a more evolved form of  
internet access :)

also, one thing I noticed during the install (this machine used to be a  
winxp/mandrake 8.2 dualboot) I used Partition Magic 7 to resize the  
NTFS partition, and then mandrake's installer to partition the "linux"  
partitions (and a fat32 partition to move files back and forth between  
os's) Well, when I came to the partitioning section of SuSE's  
installer, it said that the partition table was shot. no biggie, cuz I  
was going to swipe everything anywho, but is this a known issue with  
partition magic/mandrake? the machine was running great (well, for  
having windows installed).

-Greg

On Sunday, April 27, 2003, at 04:47  PM, Brian Ritz wrote:

> Recently purchased a laptop (Toshiba) like Mr. Williams but it was two
> steps down, and believe it or not they are very different about the  
> only
> similarities is the screen.
> But on to the bigger issue.
> I am the treasurer of my church, and they run M$ 98 and use  
> quickbooks. So
> since the laptop came with x^p. I seized the opportunity and realized I
> could start to do all of my work from home yea. But there was a nasty
> problem. x^p uses ntfs fiel system, and there is not a lot of support  
> for
> linux.... but there is some and that is all it took. Through some  
> research
> (total time on the web maybe one to two hours) I found a program called
> ntfsresize. It however wanted you to download it and use a floppy well  
> the
> new Toshiba does not come with a floppy. So I just connected to the
> whitemice network and used wget downloaded the program and sat next to  
> a
> computer with the web page open with the instructions. Who needs paper  
> and
> floppies. First thing I learned is that you have to follow them to a  
> "T"
> as Adam and I discovered not typing in an " M " caused confusion and
> headache. So got it go finally and went to boot M$ and BLUE SCREEN OF
> DEATH ah s%^&. So restored windows remembered I had one small mixup  
> with
> the instructions os started over followed instructions very very  
> closely
> and tada I have a dual boot laptop.
> The site of great help was located at
> http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html
> this is the same one that Bruce found.
> And for kicks and giggles just installed the orinoco wireless card in
> about 30 seconds on linux boy I wish linux was not so hard to use.
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