[linux-audio-user] dell latitude cpx, windows (barf!) xp and linux?

[iriXx]

hey thanks heaps for the tip! i was wondering how the heck i was 
supposed to do it!
i really want to dual boot, i only have windows because occasionally i 
get work as a Flash designer, cant really afford to lose my bread and 
butter yet :-(....

Dave Griffiths wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Apr 2003 23:31:14 +0100
> iriXx <m at irixx.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>other issue i'm wondering about is installing linux alongside windows
>>(barf!) xp... ughh... i swore i'd never use XP but its come pre
>>installed. borg edition, yuck.... but i need it for work.
>>so i'm thinking maybe with xp being so difficult, running lnx4win
>>might be an idea, but would this be more demanding on system
>>resources? i'd like to partition the drive but im not sure how to go
>>about this on XP... yuk yuk yuk... win2k was easy enough though....
>>*sigh*....
> 
> 
> I managed to do this on my laptop - I have XP and linux working dual
> boot (although I haven't booted XP in months - I just keep it cos I had
> to pay for it... )
> The only difficulty is that you have to get a recent version of
> partition magic (8?) to resize the xp ntfs partition - it's a different
> version to win2k. 
> 
> I managed it Ok anyway, and I'm usually hopeless with that kind of
> thing...
> 
> dave
> 
> 
> 


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