partition resizing -> XP/FC2 dual boot

Phil Schaffner P.R.Schaffner at IEEE.org
Sat May 29 00:35:21 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 13:02 -0700, Clifford Snow wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 01:42, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > Hi folks
> > 
> > Having read the problems and responses to doing a XP/FC2 dual boot box I'm 
> > ready to have a go (Once I get my hands on my new laptop).
> > 
> > My question is what do people recommend as the best way to resize the 
> > pre-installed XP partition from 40GB to 20GB so that I can fit FC2 on.
> 
> I took the easy way out with Partition Magic 8.0 to dual boot XP and
> FC1.  I also used their BootMagic to boot either XP or FC1.  
> 
> Let us know how it works for you.

Have been problems with some setups similar to this.  For example:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-May/msg01538.html

But then that was referring to Partition Magic version 5.  Seems to be
no definitive answer.  YMMV.

Good luck,
Phil






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