Installing FC5 onto existing XP Disk

wwp subscript at free.fr
Tue Jun 20 12:46:54 UTC 2006


Hello Laurence,


On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:20:09 +0100 Laurence Orchard <laurence at orchards.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> I would like to install FC5 onto my Athlon64 m/c, I came with Windows XP
> Home installed using the whole 250Mb disk as one partition.
> 
> Is there some easy! way to install FC5 without going through the remove,
> re-partition, re-install XP, Install FC5 route?
> 
> On previous machines I have used Partition Magic to resize partitions,
> is there something that will do the same for NTFS?

It was the same here, I used Partition Magic to stretch down the NTFS chunk,
then installed FC5 from DVD, w/ grub in master boot record (no problem w/
dual boot).


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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