installfest support

[billt-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org]

On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 01:58:34PM -0400, David J Patrick wrote:
> David J Patrick wrote:
> 
> >For the planned installfest, at linuxcaffe, here are a few things I
> >would like to be able to offer new users;
> >
> >1) a sign-up sheet that
> >    c) gathers a hardware profile
> >  
> >
> Many (most ?) users will be bringing a box with Windoze on it. Is there
> a Win hardware profile utility that could be run (at home, before they
> that things apart) that would help the (human) installers get thing
> right ? How about a web-based HW probe ? The third alternative would be
> something bootable.

Sorrybefore hand if anyone has mentioned this, but I haven't been around all weekend and there are three hundred messages.

Does anyone have a copy of partition magic or something similar that will allow us to shrink an existing Windows installation?

Bill

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