Hi.
I have a 100 gig drive on my notebook. 85 gigs is ntfs, remaining space is used by the recovery partition (fat).
I need to resize the ntfs partition to about 40 gigs and install linux on the remaining 40. I burned a live cd of gparted and booted from it, but it shows an exclamataion mark next to the ntfs partition. "Cannot read contents of this filesystem. Only limited functions available." I cannot shrink it any further than 8 MB. Gparted allows me to shrink the recovery partition (fat) without issues.
Any ideas? Any alternatives to gparted with better ntfs support?
Regards, NMK.
Nadeem M. Khan wrote:
I need to resize the ntfs partition to about 40 gigs and install linux on the remaining 40. [snip] Any ideas? Any alternatives to gparted with better ntfs support?
Don't know if this will work but suppose you boot into a live distro that has the latest kernel support for NTFS and then use gparted utility in it if available?
Regards,
Rony.
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On 9/8/06, Rony ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Nadeem M. Khan wrote:
I need to resize the ntfs partition to about 40 gigs and install linux on the remaining 40. [snip] Any ideas? Any alternatives to gparted with better ntfs support?
Don't know if this will work but suppose you boot into a live distro that has the latest kernel support for NTFS and then use gparted utility in it if available?
Solved.
Used a tool call Bootit NG. Worked like a charm.
Next step is to install a suitable distro. Any suggestions?
Its a HP Compaq v5000, Intel Centrino Duo, 1 gig RAM, pcmcia card reader, WLAN, built in sound/video. Can any distro detect all of these? I'm interested in RH/Fedora or Suse.
Regards, NMK.
Hi!
Nadeem M. Khan said the following, On Saturday 09 September 2006 11:21 AM:
On 9/8/06, Rony ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Nadeem M. Khan wrote:
call Bootit NG. Worked like a charm.
Next step is to install a suitable distro. Any suggestions?
Its a HP Compaq v5000, Intel Centrino Duo, 1 gig RAM, pcmcia card reader, WLAN, built in sound/video. Can any distro detect all of these? I'm interested in RH/Fedora or Suse.
Fedora will give you a problem. Don't know about SUSE. Ubuntu is perfect for this kind of LAPTOP. I am running Ubuntu on HP dv5118TX. For more info visit [1].
[1] http://www.linux-laptop.net/
Regards, NMK.
On Saturday 09 September 2006 11:21, Nadeem M. Khan wrote:
Its a HP Compaq v5000, Intel Centrino Duo, 1 gig RAM, pcmcia card reader, WLAN, built in sound/video. Can any distro detect all of these? I'm interested in RH/Fedora or Suse.
What WLAN card is it? SuSE would be great on such a good hardware configuration I guess.
On Saturday 09 September 2006 05:51, Nadeem M. Khan wrote:
Its a HP Compaq v5000, Intel Centrino Duo, 1 gig RAM, pcmcia card reader, WLAN, built in sound/video. Can any distro detect all of these? I'm interested in RH/Fedora or Suse.
FC5 rocks on dude. Supports Intel 2200PRO Wifi cards seamlessly. :)
Nadeem M. Khan wrote:
Next step is to install a suitable distro. Any suggestions?
Its a HP Compaq v5000, Intel Centrino Duo, 1 gig RAM, pcmcia card reader, WLAN, built in sound/video. Can any distro detect all of these? I'm interested in RH/Fedora or Suse.
No idea about laptops but the latest Kubuntu 6.06.01 is a live/install CD so if you like it you install it. I don't have the CDs though.
Regards,
Rony.
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