Folllow up to my Disk Druid Question, or "comedy of errors"

David Kramer david at thekramers.net
Wed Apr 7 21:25:12 EDT 2004


On Wednesday 07 April 2004 7:57 pm, Brendan wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 April 2004 17:20, alaric at angeldustrial.com wrote:
>
> Why did you deal with Partition Magic?
> Just partition the disk when it comes time to do the install, IN the
> installer. Install something easy, like Mandrake. Don't even format the
> partitions beforehand, just let the installer format the Linux stuff and
> Windows do the windows stuff. Simple.

I think you missed the part when he said he already had Windows taking up the 
whole drive.  The installer's not going to be able to resize a live NTFS 
partition.

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