duel booting with windows XP home edition, and Fedora

[Phil Schaffner]

On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 20:09 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Alex Aguilar writes:

Alex,

Please read the responses you got to earlier postings of the same
subject (even duel vs. dual :-).
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-July/msg04181.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-July/msg04182.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-July/msg04264.html

Cc:ing you directly for this one, but if you're going to post questions,
please read responses on-list.

> 
> > by parted) on what partitions that I would like to repartition. I am told 
...
> 
> You will probably find that your existing Win XP partition will be 
> /dev/hda1.

Yup. See also msg04264.

> But all of this is completely and utterly irrelevant, because parted is not 
> capable of resizing NTFS partitions.  Parted would've helped were you 
> running Win 95 or 98 on an FAT partition, but your existing Win XP partition 
> uses NTFS, which parted does not support.
> 
> If you want to resize your existing Win XP partition you will have to use a 
> commercial partition resizer such as Partition Magic.

Nope.  Google "ntfsresize".

> A better solution for you is to connect a second hard drive, and leave your 
> existing Win XP partition alone.  Linux does not need to be installed on the 
> first hard drive.

That would work also,

Phil.