[NBLUG/talk] SuSE 9.0 on Dell Inspiron 1000

Bob Blick bblick at sonic.net
Sun Jun 20 19:17:58 PDT 2004


On 20 Jun 2004 at 12:06, Dave Sisley wrote:
> I've been curious about this - can an XP machine be set up to dual
> boot with linux without Partition Magic?  Back when I first split my
> desktop (RH 8, I think or 9, latest) it seemed the only option was to
> use Partition Magic because linux didn't know how to deal with the
> ntfs.

SuSE, at least, comes with a valid utility for resizing ntfs partitions. I 
believe it is a free (beer) piece of Partition Magic. When you use the 
SuSE installer it's all done transparently (of course).

Cheers,

Bob





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