On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 09:44:56AM -0500, Olwe Melwasul wrote: > So, does anyone have experience with trying to install, say, Fedora 2 on > a modern XP laptop? Someone said my Presario 2100 hogs the whole disk > rather badly and I'd need a commercial disk partitioner to even get started. I have installed Debian on Thinkpad R40 with XP, I was able to do it with minimal problems. The trick in my case was to not even let XP boot the first time, because on that first boot it converts the fat filesystem to the NT filesystem. The free partitioning tools deal nicely with fat, but were still unstable with ntfs at that point. It looks like they have advanced since then and ntfsresize should work for you http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html . I don't know if Fedora includes it in their installation, but it might be easier to repartioning with a live cd before installing anyway. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list