Sorry Pat but I have to agree with Steve. My own experience trying to dual-boot an already installed winbox shows that yast refuses to resize the NTFS partition. Maybe the contrib tools work - maybe not. The issue here though is that we're asking newbies to get straight into some low level tweaking because yast couldn't do it. Damian BandiPat wrote:
quoted from another mail:
The only way SuSE can compete is to get Yast to be able to resize an NTFS partition. I used to install around 5 7.3 systems per week. Now I've given up due to the time it takes to shrink NTFS with partition magic. And then not being able to dual boot with any reliability. This really needs looking into.
Cheers, Steve.
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Steve, Take a look at the programs included with SuSE 8.2 discs. I don't know how reliable these are nor how well they work, but I do believe they work. Also, it seems there were some NTFS programs included with Mandrake. The SuSE programs are "ntfsprogs", if you do a search in YaST2. There are 4 programs included, mkntfs, ntfsundelete, ntfsresize & ntfslabel.
Pat