[TriLUG] Install Help!

[William Sutton]

It ain't free, but you might try Partition Magic.

-- 
William Sutton


On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Brian McCullough wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> I am stuck.
> 
> Last night I thought I tested this procedure, successfully.  This
> morning, no joy.
> 
> At home I have an eMachines box, brand new, with XP Home installed,
> taking up the whole disk. ( except for a small "recovery" partition )
> 
> I loaded Ubuntu 5.10 on that machine in expert mode, and it offered to
> resize the Windows partition, which I accepted, and the install was 
> successful.
> 
> 
> This morning, at a client site, I have a Dell ( 5150, if it matters )
> with XP Home installed, and the _same_ Ubuntu 5.10 disk does _not_ offer
> the resize option.
> 
> The copy of parted on my RIP disk says that it can't resize NTFS
> partitions.
> 
> Where do I go next?
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian
> 
>