Hi,
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, DDowney wrote:
> Many thanks for your email. It gave me a lot to follow up on.
>> Firstly I took you address from the ILUG website, hope you dont mind.
Seriously, you should be emailing these questions to ILUG. Not me. The
point of community mailing lists is that everyone benefits from them. When
you email me personally you're the only one who can ever get any benefit
from it. That's leaving aside the possibility that I might give you a
wrong answer and nobody else would be able to point it out.
> Two quick questions while I have you, will the partitioner know to divide
> the disk on the free space on my HD (though Ill have everything backed up
> just in case. But Im thinking of important sys files, etc).
- Defragment the drive, calculate how much space is being used,
- Boot ubuntu cd and in the manual partitioner choose to resize the ntfs
partition (to something larger than the space used).
- When that's done you can create other partitions in the available space
you have made.
I can't guarantee you it will work flawlessly, but it has for me in the
past. If it was known to overwrite files and bust winxp, people wouldn't
use it and ubuntu wouldn't have it on their cd.
If you feel nervous, boot the linux cd, just do the partition resize
(applying the changes), then quit the installation and you should be able
to boot WinXP with the smaller partition and verify it works. Then you can
start the installation up from scratch with the resizing already done.
> Secondly, if WinXP is by default on an NTFS partition, as I was informed
> on the ILUG forum, how can I go about setting up a FAT32 partition to
> swap files between OS's in. Would a partitioner do the job?
The partitioner will create/modify the partition table, allocating sectors
of the disk for separate filesystems. You create a partition (preferably
immediately adjacent to the NTFS one) labelled for use by a FAT32
filesystem. Then you'll need to format it from windows (or possibly from
linux I suppose using mtools or something similar). Windows should detect
it and give it a new drive letter.
Gavin
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