[TriLUG] Shrinking Windows to Install Linux

[Jim Wright]

The mandrake 9 install automagically detected my XP NTFS partition and
asked if I wanted to resize.  I assume 10 would still have that ability.
Note that you may need to run a good defrag on the windows disks to get
all of their data to the beginning of the disk before repartitioning.

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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
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Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 1:30 PM
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Subject: [TriLUG] Shrinking Windows to Install Linux


Gang:

I am off to sunny, warm Alaska to teach a course, and all of the  
systems in the training room are running Windows (2000 I think). I need

to be able to install Mandrake 10 on those servers.

Is there a utility out there to repartition a Windows drive to allow  
for enough space for a Linux partition? FOSS solutions preferred.

-T

P.S. The systems have lots of free disk space.
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