On Sunday 07 November 2004 07:19, michael norman wrote:

I have a friend who has a new box with XP personal installed. He is keen to try Linux. If I give him 9.2 will it be safe to use yast to resize his existing NTFS XP. Has anybody done it yet ? Is it ok ?

I resized an NTFS partition on XP from the live-eval CD of 9.2 and everything went fine. XP wanted to check the integrity of the partition after I rebooted but that went fine. I haven't done an NTFS resize from the install DVD. I was forced to do the resize so I just went ahead and did it, but if you have anything critical on the disks I would wait for other people's experiences to make sure that there haven't been some unpleasant surprises. Brana

michael norman wrote:

I have a friend who has a new box with XP personal installed. He is keen to try Linux. If I give him 9.2 will it be safe to use yast to resize his existing NTFS XP. Has anybody done it yet ? Is it ok ?

I did it with 9.1 twice on laptops with XP with no problems. I doubt it got worse with 9.2. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871

Hi Michael, michael norman wrote:

I have a friend who has a new box with XP personal installed. He is keen to try Linux. If I give him 9.2 will it be safe to use yast to resize his existing NTFS XP. Has anybody done it yet ? Is it ok ?

a) Defragment the Windows XP first b) Reboot c) Smaller the partition with YaST2 d) done Done just now on a test machine :-) bis dahin - kind regards Martin Mewes -- ###################################################################### http://www.webmin.com/ http://webmin.mamemu.de/ Webbased Administration Tool for Unixoid Systems :-) Member of the Webmin Translation Team ######################################################################

On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 12:19 +0000, michael norman wrote:

I have a friend who has a new box with XP personal installed. He is keen to try Linux. If I give him 9.2 will it be safe to use yast to resize his existing NTFS XP. Has anybody done it yet ? Is it ok ?

Mike

It's good to hear that others have had no problems and I hate to throw a spanner in the works, but my two attempts at resizing ntfs partitions with 9.1 ended in disaster, with the data being trashed. I did defrag the drive first. So, make sure your friend backs up everything before doing it! David -- Registered Linux User No 207521 The Linux Counter: http://counter.li.org/ "The above is my personal opinion and does not necessarily reflect that of the little voices in my head."

On Sunday 07 November 2004 7:19 am, michael norman wrote:

I have a friend who has a new box with XP personal installed. He is keen to try Linux. If I give him 9.2 will it be safe to use yast to resize his existing NTFS XP. Has anybody done it yet ? Is it ok ? I also resized an XP NTFS with no problem with 9.2 -- Jerry Feldman Partner Technology Access Center (contractor) (PTAC-MA) Hewlett-Packard Co. 550 King Street LKG2a-X2 Littleton, Ma. 01460 (978)506-5243