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[cerise at armory.com]

Assuming that it's not NTFS.  If you're running NTFS, then things
get messy =/

-Phil/CERisE

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 12:34:05PM -0700, Peter Belew wrote:
> 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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