Another Hoary Install Question

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 01:11 +1000, Paul Trevethan wrote:
> Thanks for the recent help on my install question folks. Just one more
> please?
> 
> I may yet be convinced/forced? <g> to do this new Ubuntu install as a
> dual boot to the existing WinME on the machine. I am after all trying
> to win a convert to the Linux cause here, so, softly softly perhaps.
> 
> The question then arises, can the Ubuntu install resize a WinME fat32
> partition without issue to make room for its install? I do have an old
> version 6.0 of Partition Magic sitting around gathering dust. Would I
> be better to throw that on the ME machine and do the re- partitioning
> to create some space  before I start?
> 
> Paul.
> 

I would say yes it would be better to use Partition Magic.  I've used
partition magic to shrink ntfs filesystems as well and it works fine.

HTH

Marc
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