New convert and kit idea

[Michelle Lowman]

Hmmm, that could be a problem. I know 2000 gives you a choice of FAT or
NTFS at installation, but my student's is NTFS. And as far as I know you
can convert FAT to NTFS, but not NTFS to FAT.  Anyone want to modify
fips? :^)

On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 16:43, Michael Knee wrote:
> fips doesn't work with NTFS, only with FAT.  XP uses NTFS, and I think 2000
> does also.
> 
> The latest release of Partition Magic works with NTFS but, as you pointed
> out, it isn't free.
> 
> Mike
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michelle Lowman" <mlowman@firstlinux.net>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 2:37 PM
> Subject: New convert and kit idea
> 
> 
> > I have my first convert among my English students at PC. She brought her
> > laptop to IF2, but whoever was doing the install gave up after her
> > machine wouldn't boot from the CD. She wants to dual-boot with XP, so
> > she's going to bring her laptop to class Monday, and I'm going to
> > install Red Hat for her.
> >
> > I was thinking that it would be a good idea to create a "conversion kit"
> > for people who want to dual-boot. That way, if you ever run into anyone
> > who is ready to try Linux but isn't quite ready to give up Windows, you
> > can set them up right away. Knoppix is one alternative, but I was
> > thinking of (1)fips (or PartitionMagic if you don't mind paying), or
> > parted with a boot disk (although I've never used this one--I think it's
> > non-destructive, but correct me if I'm wrong), along with (2)your
> > favorite distro on CD(s), and (3)don't forget a boot.img floppy in case
> > you can't get the box to boot from CD. I've used fips with older
> > versions of Windows, but has anyone tried it with Windows 2000 or XP?  I
> > couldn't get it to work with 2000 and I've never tried with XP. The kit
> > could include partitioning instructions, etc. with screenshots for the
> > visual learner (like me :)).
> >
> > Whaddya think?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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