[CALUG] Linux Friendly Laptops

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

Well, some of that "unmovable" stuff may be the swap file, or other 
things that Windows has decided that it needs for this session. 
Rebooting oftwn helps. You may also be able to run without a swap file, 
delete the "pagefile.sys", and defrag it better in the susequent reboot.

But what you REALLY want is Partition Magic, which will resize your 
partitions for you. It also comes with Boot Magic, which you can use as 
a boot manager for everything else.

I have heard that the Linux "parted" command will resize NTFS partitions 
as well.

JIM

John Alan Hastings wrote:
>>>>I am saving up to buy a laptop.  I want to use Linux as my primary  
>>>>OS.
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>>Oh, and why not just keep that Windows partition on your OEM  
>>hardware?  I am now looking for a new laptop, because all the  
>>distance learning delivery vehicles for IT grad degrees seem to work  
>>properly only in Windows using IE.  Go figure.  By the way, I would  
>>be happy to receive some feedback from the group on how wrong I am  
>>about that last bit.  I really would prefer to use my PowerBook for  
>>school instead of investing in more hardware.
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> Keeping a Windows partition is a good idea, however, repartition
> your disk as early in the life of the system as you can.  I had the
> bright idea of repartitioning a reasonably old and well used Toshiba
> and began by defragging it.  When the defrag was over, I found that
> NTFS had left a number of things it calls unmoveable blocks scattered
> around on the disk, and of course there was not enough room between
> them to install any reasonable Linux partitions.
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