[KLUG Members] The adventures of dual boot

[Brian Ritz]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Greg Mason wrote:

>what distro are you using?
I am using BSWare 9.0
>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.
I would have gladly nuke windows, but found it to be a necessary evil 
(needed to run quickbooks)
It was a similar start in BSWare you started the machine with the cdrom in 
the drive and when the prompt came up you typed "linux rescue". BSWare did 
not come with ntfsresize, but was able to find it on the net. 
 >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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