« RedHat Linux 9 | Main | Finally... »
November 24, 2003
Dual booting here I come (maybe)
So it is not so straight forward after all. First Partition Magic would not work, which should not be a surprise, as my version is almost 10 years old. Then ntfsresize, a little known Open Source project that ships with Mandrake and other Linux distros, could only reclaim 2Mb from the NTFS partition. I tried to defrag to free up more space at the end of the hard drive, but of course the MFT was at the end of the drive.
Finally success! Thanks to Diskeeper, I was able to defrag on a reboot, allowing me to move the MFT to the begining of the disk. 8 whole Gigs I was able to free up for the partition.
Now all I have to do is to wait for the Red Hat 9 ISOs to download, burn them to disk, and I am set to go. 8 Gigs should be plenty, right? At least until I ditch WinXP and make the whole hard drive Red Hat. Hmm, maybe not.
Just need to remember to burn the keep the CD install around for when Red Hat has stopped letting you install, and forces you to use Fedora.
Posted by Scott at November 24, 2003 9:50 PM