Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 21:49:16 -0700 From: "Finkelstein, David" <davef@rsasecurity.com> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking at an IBM ThinkPad T41 Message-ID: <200406100449.i5A4nGWt081940@quattro.rsa.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Jun 2004 17:44:55 PDT." <200406100044.RAA18314@mina.soco.agilent.com>
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I just got a new Tecra M2, pre-loaded with XP. SystemRescueCD (http://www.sysresccd.org/) was my friend. It includes QTParted, which can shrink NTFS partitions without distrbing the existing OS installation. --- David Darryl Okahata wrote: >Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> wrote: > >> At 23:50 09/06/2004, Randy Bush wrote: >> > > You'll have fun freeing up space for a FreeBSD partition >> > >> >partition magic is your friend >> >> Not when I don't have a copy to hand and I want to get my shiny new laptop >> installed *RIGHT NOW* :-) > > Then BootIt Next Generation is your friend (you can try it out >before buying it): > > http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ > >Boot it from either a floppy or CDROM. Just DO NOT INSTALL IT, but >instead hit, "cancel", to go into maintenance mode, where you can then >resize FAT32/NTFS partitions.
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