[ale] First post

[James Sumners]

You misunderstand. Xandros probably won't have any problem shrinking
an NTFS partition (nor will most distributions now). No Linux
distribution will install, and run, on an NTFS partition (leaving out
some obscure projects). The filesystem is incompatible with the
operating system.

If you don't care about the data on the hard drive, I recommend
letting the Xandros installer suggest a partition scheme. It will
either recommend a single swap partition and an all encompassing
partition or a swap partition, a root partition, and a home directory
partition. The second option is nice if you intend to move on to
another distribution some day and don't want to have to move all of
your personal files around. The first option is nice for the initially
lazy, but it will bite you in the ass one day.

On 5/16/06, Billy049 <Billy049 at peoplepc.com> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I have always been a Windows user but recently decided to finally try
> Linux.  Xandros was recommended as being easy and similar Windows.  The
> CD should arrive any day now.
>
> I plan to install it exclusively on a 1ghz Altheon machine with a 40 gig
> hard drive with NTFS.  I understand that will not be a problem to Xandros.
>
> My first question is should I leave the drive as a single 40 gig
> partition?  Any other Xandros advice is appreciated.
>
> Bill Grubbs
> Atlanta
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