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I was ferreting through the mag dvd pile when I spotted a Xandros DVD - and ISTR it doesn't use parted and a lot of other tools, and <hiss> has cross licenced with MS, so gave it a whirl.<BR>
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Resized XP disk and installed without a hitch. <BR>
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Actually on first glance (I set it up to lookalike "Redmond" mode for the wife as she uses XP at work <double boo hiss> it looks pretty good for her needs - menus tend to be where she expects to find them, crossover office (trial alas) installed by default, no fiddling. No idea about codecs yet for playing media, bet they are in the paid for section.<BR>
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Err, anyone know where one can get dodgy opening key numbers for Xandros from >;) <BR>
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It will be over a month before I've had time to try out everything with the school break coming and a lot of work on renovating the house as my neurodegenerative illness tends to remission for a few months over the warmer weather (tho' this sudden chill after a few days put me in bed for 2 days, just getting going again this evening). <BR>
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If it works out OK I might try and get her office to buy it for her to use at home... I refuse point blank to let any windows machine on our network at home to be exposed to the internet, I don't have the time to fiddle forever with useless virii blockers, nor the money to endlessly upgrade them bought in, and doubt the office will budget that side of things and won't pay for an XP licence for her, tho' we've banned XP for all but OFF internet games for the kids.<BR>
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I suppose I could set up another firewall and connect a games PC/s to that and then to outside world - would that isolate the home network if I go router -> firewall1 -> homenetwork of linuxen boxen <BR>
-> firewall 2 -> XP box(es) with whatever free protection programs people recommend<BR>
NO INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN 2 NETWORKS IN THE HOUSE.<BR>
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Or is leaving the router as a single point of connection to our ISP going to two firewalls going to weaken my IPCop based reliance too much and leave us open to attack via the router?<BR>
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I don't know enough except to use IPCop pretty well out of the box y'see.<BR>
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Now still the question - why should parted and gparted fail to resize the disk in the first place? Does suse use parted as well? And what does Xandros use?<BR>
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Malcolm<BR>
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On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 23:06 +0100, M.Blackmore wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">I've not come across this problem before, but parted (on more than one bootupCD of different linux varieties, including non debian derivatives) is failing to shrink a 40gb XP ntfs single partition disk down to 2 x 20/20gb parts for linux installation. Error message is totally unhelpful - basically says error can't shrink...</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">I seem to recall someone saying in passing on a lis (this?)t that XP itself had a tool for resizing partitions. Can someone (a) confirm that is the case and (b) give me some indication of where to find it, if such exists, 'cos I haven't yet found it on my menu fumblings (I've now increased my count of XP start ups to over a dozen since it was first released now, but bet its' still under 20 times I'ver booted into it on a computer of mine!!).</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Or any freebie alternatives for shrinking parts in XPland?</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Why should parted be failing I wonder? New one on me, that problem is...</FONT>
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