[NBLUG/talk] Dual-Booting/XP repartition

[troy]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 10:38:50PM -0700, Dave Sisley wrote:
> Hi, guys:
> I'll just say this up front:  This is more of a <gasp> windows </gasp> 
> question, but I only ask it because what I *really* want to run is linux.
> 
> I just got a new dell with XP pre-loaded and I (of course!) want to put 
> RH8 on it ASAP in a dual boot setup.  I'm having trouble with the 
> repartitioning of the HD, however.  It's a 30G drive with gobs of room.
> 
> Does anyone know of a 'simple' way to repartition the drive without:
> - buying PartitionMagic
> - Reinstalling XP

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html -- Shareware, Free trial,
$29.95 if you keep it.
I thought I heard mention of a tool with recent Mandrake distro's that
might do it, but I'm not sure.


Regarding your later comments, running Linux inside a virtual machine
hosted on Windoze really defeats the purpose of running Linux.  One of
it's strongest points is that you can run all sorts of tasks at once and
they'll usually not get in your way.  I curse and scream every time I
have to use windows to:

a) Use the floppy (what is is switching to Real Mode or something?)
b) have to copy several dozen megabytes of data
c) anything else that requires windoze to think and chew gum at the same
time.


-troy