[Gllug] Linux on Dell 6400?

Rich Walker rw at shadow.org.uk
Thu Jul 6 12:25:03 UTC 2006


Matthew Joseph Smith <indigojo_uk at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> Toohey Shroff wrote:
>> Try ubuntu 6.06 (dapper drake). it works out of the box. i have the
>> same machine and wireless works too (i got intel card).
>
> What about partitioning? Do you need a third-party partitioner to resize NTFS or FAT32 partitions or
> can you just use the installer a la SUSE?

I was just able to use Knoppix 5.01 to repartition NTFS partitions
(which kind of surprised me, but there you go) so I would hope Ubuntu
would have the latest parted and ntfsresize.

cheers, Rich.

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