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Re: [SLUG] Repartitioning XP to support dual booting...


On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 4:43 AM, <david.lyon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >> Are there any viable alternatives within FOSS ?
> >>
> >> My friends in germany all say go buy the windows tool..
> >>
> >> are they right ? or is there another way ?
> >
> >
> > Pretty much buncome. It JustWorks right up to a few day old purchase
> >  of Xp SP2
> >
>
> ok - no problem...
>
> so which tool reliably does it ?
>
> ie cfdisk etc ?
>

The debian Etch installer did this for me out of the box. Check about the
installer of the particular distro you intend to use.
Otherwise, sys rescue cd can probably do this.

--Amos