Ease of installation?

Peter Hiscocks phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org
Sat Feb 28 00:35:00 UTC 2004


Interesting. I'll check that out. Thanks, guys.

I have an older version of Partition Magic, but it no longer works on
something like W98, and I'm loath to spring for the cost of an upgrade.

Peter


On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:53:09PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 01:47:52PM -0600, Garth Meisel wrote:
> > And I might need some SuSE sauce with that crow please!
> > From the link 
> > http://www.suse.com/us/private/products/suse_linux/i386/linwin.html
> > 
> > But again, thankfully I don't have to deal with it so I can't guarantee it.  
> > This is the best I can come up with:  Begin quote:.  
> > 
> > "No matter which version of Windows runs on your system - 95, 98, ME, NT, 
> > 2000, or XP - you can install SUSE LINUX 9.0 alongside it. During the 
> > installation, SUSE LINUX assists you in preparing the free space in the 
> > partition containing Windows 95, 98, or ME for your new Linux with a few 
> > mouse clicks. The Windows partition can easily be resized to the desired size 
> > without any loss of data. If you are not familiar with hard disk 
> > partitioning, simply let the system assistant YaST partition the hard disk 
> > automatically." 
> 
> So it says you can run it on a system that has any version of windows,
> and it says it can resize win95/98/Me drives (it does not say it can
> resize NTFS though).  I wonder why... :)
> 
> Lennart Sorensen
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