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Nathan J. Underwood wrote:

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> Brian,
>
>     I definitely appreciate the post, but would prefer to stick with
> Fedora.  I've been a RH user since 4.2, just haven't had a need (desire)
> to setup a dual-boot system.  Do you know if Fedora has a similar option
> to resize the NTFS partitions to that (apparently) available with
> Mandrake?  Thanks for your help!!
>
> Brian Chase wrote:
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> | Getting it all to work can be done various ways, but I'll just make a
> | suggestion since this is your first time.
> |
> | If you can, reload a clean XP onto the entire hard drive from 
> scratch if
> | possible.  NTFS should take up the entire drive at this point.  If you
> | can't do that, take the existing WinXP and do a disk defragment on it
> | first.
> |
> | Then load Mandrake 9.2 on it by just booting the first Mandrake CD from
> | the CDROM drive.  When you go to the Mandrake site, you'll notice that
> | 10.0 is available, but I'm reading of LOTS of bugs.  I know 9.2 is the
> | most stable Mandrake of recent history and it's very good.  The install
> | process allows you to resize your NTFS partition in the install, and
> | works flawlessly and is the MOST user friendly way to get this going.
> | Finish the install, using GRUB as a bootloader in the Master Boot 
> Record
> | preferably.
> |
> | Try out Mandrake, if you don't like it, you can then use the partitions
> | created in the first Mandrake install to reload Fedora on top, just
> | remember when you get the disk drake (Mandrake) or disk druid (Fedora)
> | to NOT format the NTFS partition, all you'll need is "/boot" partition
> | (100MB), "/swap" partition (twice the size of your RAM), and whatever's
> | left as your "/" partition.
> |
> | Post again if this doesn't work, but I'm confident this is your easiest
> | way to a dual boot scenario.  Suse Linux offers NTFS resize as well, 
> but
> | doesn't offer free ISO downloads.
> |
> | Cheers,
> |
> | BC
> |
> |
> |
> |
> |
> | Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> |
> | Ok, I'm just now getting on the dual-boot bandwagon, and it's not quite
> | as easy as I had expected.  I'm installing on an IBM Thinkpad with a
> | 60GB drive, and WinXP Pro is already installed on hda1 (factory load).
> | I used qtparted to size down the partition to 25GB, and wanted to setup
> | a 10GB partition for Linux (Fedora Core1).  I read through this
&gt; | (<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.hut.fi/~tkarvine/linux-windows-dual-boot-resing-ntfs.html";>http://www.hut.fi/~tkarvine/linux-windows-dual-boot-resing-ntfs.html</a>),
&gt; | but couldn't get it to install.  At the point that it should / would
&gt; | normally start copying files, I get an error stating that I am probably
&gt; | out of drive space.  I had setup [swap] (hda2 = 512MB), /boot (hda3 =
&gt; | 100MB), / (hda3 = 9[ish]GB).  So, I figured I'd dorked something up, 
&gt; and
&gt; | restarted.  Same thing (I went as far as to delete the partitions so
&gt; | that there was just the 25GB NTFS, and a blank one).  So then, blew 
&gt; away
&gt; | those partitions (that Linux created) again, and started the install
&gt; | again, this time choosing the &quot;Personal Desktop&quot; option.  Same 
&gt; error.  I
&gt; | think I'm just missing something, but can't seem to figure out what it
&gt; | is.  I know that there's sufficient room there (on / ) for it to
&gt; | install, or should be at least.  What am I missing?
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