Re: Installation Questions
Rapp, Chad M wrote:
>I have to quick questions, I have limited experience on UNIX machines and I am looking to setup a dual-boot system on my home PC with Debian Linux/Windows XP.
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>1- Do you know of any freeware/shareware utilities that I can partition my disk with. fdisk and fips are both shutout by XP.
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This is almost certainly because your XP partition is NTFS, the details
of which Microsoft keeps secret. There's been a lot of work on
reverse-engineering NTFS, with quite a bit of success, but not enough to
make it safe for a non-Microsoft-approved partitioning tool. parted
_might_ do the job nowadays, but last time I checked, it didn't. I think
you'll either have to go with a commercial tool, like Partition Magic,
or backup XP, and manually resize the partition and restore/reinstall
XP. An easier way would be to use another hard drive for the Linux side.
>2- I am looking to do a network install but the only access I currently have to the internet is a WLAN. Is there a way to download/install a package that will allow me to configure my WLAN on Debian and if so what package/utilities will I need.
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If you have a well-supported WLAN card, you should have no worries, the
netinstall CD should have what you need. If you have a not-supported
WLAN card (or poorly supported card), good luck, Buddy; you'll need it.
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Kent
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