Re: Intall Linux with Windows already installed

[Nathan Clayton <nathanclayton@daftwazzock.com>]

Eduardo Frias wrote:

>Hi everybody,
>
>I would like to install RedHat Linux on my laptop. The problem is that I
>dont have any CD of WindowsXP available and I need to have windows. What I
>want is to install linux in my laptop without having to reinstall
>windowsXP, is it possible? is there any utilities that can help me do
>that? to respect the current windowsXP installation and install Linux in
>the remaining space available? Like a dynamic partition disc utility?
>
>Any suggestions? Readings?
>
>Thank you as always.
>
>
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I would reccomend that you use a program like that found at 
http://terabyteunlimited.com/booting.html
It's not Linux native, but it can resize the NTFS (even the new version 
which Microsoft put out with WinXP). I have used it on my Toshiba laptop 
with no problems. If you don't have a floppy drive, it's a disk image, 
so just treat that as the disk image while making a bootable cd. To 
change the partition table, just boot off of the floppy and click cancel 
to the installation. That puts you into maintenance mode, where you can 
move the partitions around. I would reccomend buying it, it's a really 
beautiful piece of software. Otherwise, you can just download a free 30 
day trial version from their website.
Best of luck,
Nathan