Xplinth
03-08-2003, 09:48 AM
ok,
HELP!
er, at the moment, my desktop box has winXP pro on it. Not wanting to get into the whole which is best arguement, suffice to say I want to try linux in the desktop environment, and I can't get it set up.
My system is an abit at7 max2 with a 160gb disk on hdc. The disk is already partitioned 80gb/80gb with ntfs and ext2. But now I am stuck. The partioning was done with partitionmagic, and neither of the installs I have played with (debian & slack) are even pretending to happy. cfisk only reports the disk as being 137gb big and that is only if I use a new paritiontable which means I'll lose windows - I really can't afford to do that.
I'm really hoping some-one has done something similar and can help!
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X
HELP!
er, at the moment, my desktop box has winXP pro on it. Not wanting to get into the whole which is best arguement, suffice to say I want to try linux in the desktop environment, and I can't get it set up.
My system is an abit at7 max2 with a 160gb disk on hdc. The disk is already partitioned 80gb/80gb with ntfs and ext2. But now I am stuck. The partioning was done with partitionmagic, and neither of the installs I have played with (debian & slack) are even pretending to happy. cfisk only reports the disk as being 137gb big and that is only if I use a new paritiontable which means I'll lose windows - I really can't afford to do that.
I'm really hoping some-one has done something similar and can help!
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X