Laptop Questions?

[joshua at navyjosh.us]

Hey,

Thanks for your help i use mdk 9.2 so that should be no sweat


> On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 15:32, joshua at navyjosh.us wrote:
>
> as far as i know nfts can not be resized or written on without
>> problems. If i am wrong please point me to where i can find teh
>> inomation
>> on this) Thanks!
>
> Josh,
>
>
> this is in answer to the same question on gentoo-users mailing list
> --
> Ron
> ronb at cogeco.ca
>
> Q
>
> I'm thinking this question's probably come up here before, but I'm going
> to pose it anyway; I've got a Compaq Presario 2140 with Windows XP
> installed, and I'd like to install Gentoo without wiping and
> repartitioning.  Can anyone recommend any free tools that they've found
> reliable for resizing partitions for use with WinXP and Gentoo?  I'd
> appreciate any advise you've got to give
>
> A
>
> The best way I have found is to use a Knoppix cd to boot the system and
> then use either ntfsresize from the command line or qtparted if you
> prefer a graphical way of doing it.  You can also use a Mandrake 9.1 or
> higher install cd as it includes the ntfs programs mentioned above.  I
> was able to use a Knoppix cd to shrink a 40GB NTFS partition down to
> 15GB without a problem.  I'm assuming that your partition is NTFS and if
> it is not then what I have said isnt really relevant.
>
>