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Author: Mark Jarvis
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Install-Fest Question


He's planning on defragging it before he comes.

-mj-

Eric "Shubes" wrote:

> 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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