[klug] Lunar Linux - source-based distro

[Bill Christiansen]

You could download and burn a system rescue CD iso from here:
http://www.sysresccd.org/download.en.php
It's 110 MB so not a huge d/l as far as iso's go. When you boot the rescue
CD you created you can run QT parted by typing: run_qtparted. It's a
graphical partion manager similar to partition magic and it will allow you
to resize you windows partition to free up some space. You will want to
defrag your XP drive first so that all the data moves down to the start of
the drive. It's always possible to re-install Windows (fdisk can delete any
non dos partitions) but it's long winded and you'll loose any data or
programs you don't have backups for.
Bill
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Withers" <swithers at mmp.org.nz>
To: "Kapiti Coast Linux Users Group" <klug at linux.net.nz>
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 9:55 AM
Subject: RE: [klug] Lunar Linux - source-based distro


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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