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I'm coming into this discussion late. Saw your post of 7/17 on the |
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"I've been handed a new amd64 portable (HP-8000), which must keep |
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XP on it. To perform an installation, I usually use Partition |
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Magic, which has worked very well to down-size the windoze partition. |
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This system (suposedly) has another hidden partition that XP uses to |
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restore the OS, if the XP installation ever get's corrupted. NO XP |
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installation CD was provided. |
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I was wondering if any of the opensource repartitioning tools |
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have matured to the point I could used one of them in lieu |
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of Partition Magic?" |
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I have found ntfsresize to be quite reliable even as long as two years |
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ago. It's tedious but reliable. With my new AMD64 PC, I cheated and |
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installed the Ubuntu 6.06 LTS AMD64 distro first, since this distro |
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has a very easy to use repartitioning tool (automatic tools wrapped |
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around ntfsresize). |
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"In order to keep the XP installation: |
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Does it matter if I setup Gentoo on the portable first, before going thru |
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all of those windoze installation/initialization menus? " |
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[ answer ] |
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In any dual boot setup, install Windows first. Windows always |
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overwrites the mbr, and you would lose the ability to boot Linux |
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(rescue cdrom needed). OTOH, if you have an actual Windows install CD, |
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you could use a rescue CD to partition the disk the way you like it in |
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advance. The Windows installer will ignore Linux and swap partitions. |
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"Any wiki examples (gotchas) on xorg.conf or make.conf (as this is my first |
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amd64 installation) are welcome." |
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The only gotcha I found was with the xorg modular installation. After |
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completing the basic installation, I did an 'emerge xfce4' and let |
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portage calculate all the dependancies including xorg. When all was |
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said and done, I discovered that the automatic dependancy selection |
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had not included the keyboard and mouse modules for xorg, so I had to |
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emerge these manually. |
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Also I didn't have much sucess using 'X -configure'. I had to copy |
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over an existin xorg.conf and make modifications. |
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HTH, |
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Collins Richey |
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If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries |
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of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. |
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