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On 1/24/06, Mark Haney <mhaney@××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Iain McKee wrote: |
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> > Oh sorry, I have a Maxtor 200 GB SATA drive. Pehaps that will be the |
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> > issue. yeah, I don't like partition magic one bit...i used a linux one |
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> > with yellow dog, pretty common but I cant remember the name; anyway, |
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> > it was super easy. |
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> > It's funny because I have also had a dualboot on mac before and |
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> > setting that up with mac software was amazingly easy. |
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> > Anyhoo, please let me know if you need any other info and thanks for the help. |
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> Yeah there's a couple of things. First, not that I personally care, but |
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> top posting is considered bad form on most lists. Second the tool you |
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> used on YellowDog was probably QtParted. I have found that the System |
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> Rescue CD (www.sysresccd.org) includes QtParted and I've used that |
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> almost exclusively for the last 3 years or so for changing partitions to |
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> dual- or triple-boot my systems. Download that and try running the |
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> install without ANY linux partitions in the free space and it should work. |
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> Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum |
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> Mark Haney |
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> Sr. Systems Administrator |
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> ERC Broadband |
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> (828) 350-2415 |
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Alright, I will refrain from top posting if it bugs people. oddly |
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enough I have done that since I started using email over 10 years ago |
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and no one ever mentioned it to me! |
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I will give that app a try |
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