On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 11:28:17PM -0000, Robert Grant (DEV) wrote:
died. I am on the waiting list for a UEA copy of XP, which I think I need to install first, so have a few days to choose between Sarge and (K)Ubuntu. BTW, just to make the purists cringe, my plan is to put on XP then shrink the NTFS partition down and add ext3 ones for / and /home plus swap using Partition Magic.
You don't *need* to install XP first, but it is easier that way. Also when installing XP don't make it fill the entire disk, just give it however much of the disk you want. You will save yourself lots of trouble doing it that way than trying to shrink the NTFS partition afterwards. My other suggestion would be to try Ubuntu and if you don't really gel with it after a week pull it off and slap on a copy of sarge. If you have a partition for /home then don't format it when you do the changeover and you won't even need to worry about copying data. (of course with a 60gig disk you could install both Ubuntu and Debian on the same machine and share /home between them...)
Adam