[TriLUG] Install Help!

[William Sutton]

Depends on what you mean by disk sharing, but you could make a samba 
shared drive from the Linux box to the Windows box to at least keep the 
files available to both.  Also, if you need to be able to switch between 
them (e.g., workstation type stuff), you might look at synergy 
(http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/).  It's a nice open source program that 
runs on Windows, Linux, MacOS, etc, and ties the different systems 
together such that the keyboard, video, and mouse mostly act as though it 
was a single desktop.

-- 
William Sutton


On Sat, 4 Mar 2006, Brian McCullough wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 09:06:37PM -0500, Steven Klund wrote:
> > Brian,
> > 
> > Partition Magic has a 30 trial that will work great once installed on
> > Win.  After you repartition the HD, you can uninstall it and it will not
> > cost you anything,
> 
> Did I mention it is a Dell?  ^&*&^%&***&^%&*
> 
> OK, I was able to resize that partition, but it became of "unknown"
> type, or was that "other"?   In any case I tried to start Win again, but
> dead!
> 
> I had a nice conversation with a lady at Dell, who told me that Ctrl-F11
> would ( she didn't say the words but ) re-ghost the machine, back to the
> shipped state.  Since it is a new install anyway, no big deal.
> 
> 
> The client also decided that rebooting would be too difficult for the
> user switching between XP, unable to see any network cable, to Linux,
> connected to the firewall and the Internet, for e-mail and other
> purposes.  So the Dell is going to run XP Home and not have a network
> cable and he is going to buy a second machine to run Linux and do
> e-mail!  Of course disk sharing is no longer an option, but oh, well.
> 
> 
> 
> > Also, at Distrowatch.com, there is a great system recovery cd with
> > qtpartition on it,  I have used this to resize many HD's.
> 
> Which one?  I have used RIP for various purposes.
> 
> 
> > Hope this helps.
> > 
> > Steve
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> Brian
> 
>