[TriLUG] Shrinking Windows to Install Linux

[Tarus Balog]

On Jan 13, 2005, at 1:49 PM, Jim Wright wrote:

> 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.

That's what I heard too. Thanks to everyone for their advice.

-T

P.S. I livecd won't work, because I need to install OpenNMS on these  
boxes and at the moment we don't have it working on a livecd (but it  
will one day soon).
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