On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 09:20 +1300, Dean wrote: > Off topic here. > > still can’t partition my notebook hdd to install linux and xp. > > If I choose a full linux install, if things go wrong, can I reinstall xp? > > I have a compaq which partitions off a part of the hdd for recovery use, I think. > > Cheers > > Dean That's not off-topic at all, Dean. :-) Helping each other with Linux issues is very much on topic. Have you tried Xandros Linux for - at least - the repartitioning? It allows you to shrink the XP partition and make new ones for Linux / swap out of the freed space. Other distros do too.....but Xandros does it more or less automagically, merely asking you how large you'd like the XP partitiotn to be when complete. You shouldn't need more than 10GB to very comfortably create a Linux partition and swap and have about half of that for using any large files you may have.....assuming you can spare that much. Everything over that would be a bonus.
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