How to make room for an additional distro

Fri Sep 14 00:36:32 UTC 2012

On 14 September 2012 00:23, Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co> wrote:
>
> This will not work; you cannot resize the partitions on a disk that is
> in use, so you cannot resize the partitions on a disk containing the
> operating system you are using.
>
> You could boot off a live CD (such as Parted Magic), but it seems a
> bit of a convoluted process - boot off a live CD to resize partitions,
> then boot off a different live CD to install the system - when the
> Mint install CD will be able to perform both tasks.

Avi speaks the truth.

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