[TriLUG] Partitioning for n-booting

[Jason Tower]

i *think* the latest versions of mandrake and/or suse can resize ntfs 
during installation.  it's probably not 100% reliable but in your case 
that shouldn't matter.  heck, the latest knoppix might have utilities 
for this too.

alternatively you could install a smaller disk (i have a 4gb laptop disk 
if you want to borrow it) and have the recovery disk write to that.  
then copy the resulting 4gb partition to the 60gb disk and go from 
there.  g4u would be useful for this perhaps, i've done it before.

jason

On Tuesday 06 January 2004 16:41, Mike Mueller wrote:
> I partitioned the hard disk on my laptop using DOS FDISK.  I created
> a FAT32 partition about 6GB and formatted it. The remainder of the
> disk was left unpartitioned.
>
> I popped in the Toshiba recovery disk and expected it to load into
> the small partition I created.  Instead, the dang thing
> re-partitioned and re-formatted the disk into an NTFS partition and
> ran the Symantec Ghost restore program.
>
> I think I am stuck with having to buy Partition Magic so I can reduce
> the NTFS partition so I can load GNU/Linux.
>
> The NTFS partition is not well handled by non-Partition Magic
> re-partitioners.  The recovery disk is not a real XP installer so I
> don't have options for re-installing.
>
> Am I missing something?
> --
> Mike Mueller
> 324881 (08/20/2003)
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