fsanta <fsanta@arrakis.es> wrote:

On Tuesday 09 September 2003 20:43, Jan Elders wrote:

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On Tuesday 09 September 2003 19:48, Tony Alfrey wrote: ------<Text deleted -- Original thread by CWSIV- minor editing ------- of Steve's original post by me>----

"The only way SuSE can compete is to get Yast to be able to resize an NTFS partition.

"I used to install around five (5) (SuSE) 7.3 systems per week. Now I've given up due to the time it takes to shrink NTFS partitions 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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I don't want to sound Me too, but I agree with Steve. SuSE (and their other partners) need to spend the big bucks and get a high powered team working on this problem. I say this based on my experience installing 8.0 and 8.1 on a Win2K machine,which fortuneately had fat32 partitons and not NTFS. We just did another install on another Win2K machine which we had just bought used. We removed MS Window's programs and started over creating the partitions we wanted. It took most of the day. Remember most people in the States have the OS's installed when they buy the box. I don't know if that's true for most of the world, but there are lot of people who are willing to give linux a try but they don't want it to mess up their MS stuff. Now I am looking at installing (with help) SuSE 8.2 on my "8.0/8.1" machine. It is tripple boot (Win2K, SuSE 8.0, and 8.1 and I plan to add 8.2). I can boot with both Lilo and Grub, but more than once on my 8.0 system I had to use the CD when my Lilo floppy died on me for no appararent reason. (In general I use the command line to create Lilo foppies, I don't trust KDE/Yast to do it right) Steve struck a raw nerve with his comment about reliable booting. So far grub has done bettter, but I still cross my fingers each time I boot. And I am not running mission critical stuff -- my box is a "home" machine and I have available to me three other boxes in case of problems, plus my machine is networked and I have available to me an on site unix/linux guru who can telnet into my machine if I lock it up...later, Best regards, Gar -- "I am sorry I wrote such a long email, I didn't have time to write a short one" --- Mark Twain -- PS-- I started this as a new thread. (I agree that Carl William Spitzer the IVth hit the nail on the head with his question: "when will the source code be available?" but my Daddy told me, "Work on what you can change...") -- __________________________________________________________________ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455