[svlug] Installfests/ Dual Boot installations

[Tony Cappellini]

I've forgotten to mention, that when I installed XP, I left approx 12GB for 
Linux.
However, after reading so many conflicting web pages as to how to do a dual 
boot, I got chicken.

I had no problems making a dual-boot with Win2k & Red Hat, a few years 
back, but something I read recently on the SUSE site about XP & Linux
made me think I may not want to try this alone :-)


From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
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Quoting James Sparenberg (james at linuxrebel.us):

 > If you have a copy of Partition Magic For Windows Bring it as well.
 > IMHO it's easier to use a Windows based tool to defragand and/or resize
 > Windows, especially if you are on an NTFS drive.

If you haven't tried this from a Linux distribution (or maintenance CD)
lately, you might be pleasantly suprised.  I'm sure you're familiar with
Mandrakelinux's Diskdrake and its ability to graphically front-end
ntfsresize, but the QtParted/ntfsresize combination is really good, too.

Note:  Any ntfsresize of the past year or so doesn't even need you to
defrag.