I don't know about fips, but be sure that he defrags the disk (just) 
before he brings it in. We had a fellow at last month's installfest that 
didn't have that done ahead of time. :( It's essential to do so in order 
to change the size of the NTFS partition.

Mark Jarvis wrote:

> 
> I have a friend who will be coming to Saturday's install-fest looking 
> for help in adding Linux to his Laptop. (Adding--he wants a dual-boot 
> system.) It has XP-Pro installed and XP's NTFS file system is using the 
> whole disk. (There's plenty of room, it's just all in that NTFS 
> partition. Mandrake's fips is reportedly able to work with an NTFS 
> partition. He can bring the Mandrake CDs, but wants to know if there 
> will be a fips "expert" there to help him.
> 
> Comment?
> 
> -mj-
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