On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:40:51 -0700 Robert Lewis <rll@felton.felton.ca.us> wrote:
I can tell you that shrinking an XP partition on my new laptop with Earlier traffic on this group about all of this discussion with various approaches to resolution. Usually, I like to just have a second drive for Linux when I dual boot which is necessary if limited harddrive space is happening or shrinking doesn't work.
In the end, I used partition magic to shrink the XP partition and then Linux installed ok. I used to use Partition Magic, but I found that QTParted gives me the same results, and it does understand Linux. But, Partition Magic is an excellent product. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9