Olwe Melwasul wrote: > So, does anyone have experience with trying to install, say, Fedora 2 on > a modern XP laptop? Someone said my Presario 2100 hogs the whole disk > rather badly and I'd need a commercial disk partitioner to even get > started. > > Olwers I have Slackware 10.0 installed installed on a setup similar to your. My harddisk partition was originally 100% partitioned for XP Pro. I used a program called "Partition Magic" (it's a commercial program, perhaps the one you were reffering too). With Partition Magic I was able to resize the original existing NTFS - XP partition form 100% down to 20Gig's. I also used Partition magic to setup my /swap & /root file system partitions for slackware. Once the partitions were setup, I installed Slack normally, with the exception of I put the LILO boot loader on the /linux partition instead of the hard disks MBR. Once Slack was installed I fired up XP & installed a program called "Boot Magic" (comes with partition magic), and enabled it to be the new MBR loader. I then configged boot magic for loading the original XP, and added Slack to the setup. Rebooted & was presented with Boot Magics boot loader, with XP & Slack options available. XP will load the original XP boot loader, and the Slack option will fire up the LILO I installed in the Linux partition. All Good. I am sure there are several ways to do this using open source tools, but when a machine is 100% M$ to begin with, I find the partition magic / boot magic combo to be the way to go. Well, that's what I did. If you choose to go this route, make sure to read all the docs that come with Partition Magic. They have some good instructions for helping you setup a dual (or more) boot system. As with many system tools like this one wrong move couple destroy your system, so read & be careful. Hope that helps. Kind Regards, Robert De Mars -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= http://b-o-b.homelinux.com Lat 45:09N / Long 93:18W -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list