On Sat, 05 Apr 2003 23:31:14 +0100
 iriXx <m(a)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. 
at no cost.
I successfully shrank my ntfs partition with it following the
instructions at