[Sluglug] new to the list

[Peter Belew]

Yes, this is in fact easy. Before starting the Linux stuff, you want
to defrag your disk (partitions) with the XP defragment utiity.

If you're free this evening, there's a SMAUG meeting tonight
in Capitola, you can get help at that.

  http://www.scruz.org/

Ignore the meeting date on the page; but the location is correct.
We're meeting every Monday night now at Tiny's. Usually
a few people show up with their laptops, either installing stuff
or gaming on ancient laptops without GUIs, or some other
such activity.

A ride could be provided. The attendees include some current
and former SlugLUG people. SlugLUG hasn't had much in
the way of meetings in the last year, and only about 1 or 2
installfests a year, as well. And, as you say, the list activity
is a little slow.

Some variant on parted or nparted will do the partitioning, once
the XP partition is defragged.

- Peter Belew

On 10/3/05, Patrick Brede <pbrede at ucsc.edu> wrote:
> Hi everybody. My name is Patrick Brede and i'm a first
> year cs major. I just joined the list, and it seems like
> nothing is happening on it. Is this true? The site
> certainly seems like it isn't very active. Anyway, i would
> like to set up my laptop (new inspiron 6000) to duel boot
> SUSE linux and winXP. As i have never done this before, i
> was wondering if anybody who had done something similair
> would be willing to help me out (possibly in person) and
> show me how to do it. I would like to be able to do it
> without reformatting completely, i.e. resize the windows
> partition. i know it's possible but have no experience
> here and wouldn't want to screw up my only computer.
> Thanks everybody.
>
> -patrick
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