On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:22 am, Sunny wrote:
I need to install SuSE on a laptop's 40GB HDD. Unfortunately, even I freed enough space and defrag it from XP, it still keeps some files near the end of the disk.
Newer tools might have made this advice obsolete, but it used to be the case that you need to: Boot into Windows, turn off virtual memory and reboot. This is required to free the VM file usually located in the middle of the NTFS partition. After the reboot you can use the Windows defrag to move the files to the beginning of the windows partition and the clear space to the end. Then it's safe* to run the SuSE installer and shrink the NTFS partition to add a Linux system. Safe* = "will probably work fine" Safe* != "no need to back up first" All being well SuSE should spot the Windows partition and create a boot entry for it. Apart from needing to be renamed "Endless Frustration", it should work fine, remember to turn virtual memory back on. michaelj -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166 No matter how much you pay for software, you always get less than you hoped. Unless you pay nothing, then you get more.