On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:36:55 -0500, "Prof. John C Nash" <nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca> wrote: > Yes. She has used this on her desktop. However, the current issue is to > NOT repartition > the new laptop in a non-recoverable way in the first couple of months when > it may need to > be returned if there is anything defective. If it had only 3 primary > partitions, then we > could shrink one and put in a Linux partition. Reversing that is pretty > easy, i.e., blow > away the Linux partition and re-expand. > > The point of all of this is that folk won't do things that might give them > trouble. It is > unfortunate that M$ and friends are so hostile, likely because they are > non-competitive on > software. We are forced to be even more clever to win converts. > > JN > Not sure how much time you want to spend on this... but seeing as its a new machine and doesn't have much on it you could always take out the HDD and throw it into another linux box and make a backup image with dd. (eg: dd if=/dev/sdX | bzip2 > /backup/mrsXhdd.img.bz2). Although that would take a while because it's doing the whole drive so you could always try a tool like Partimage that would only backup actual data - however they still list ntfs as experimental.. My 2c.. Cheers, Mark > > Spencer Cheng wrote: >> Have your friend consider running Windows in VMWare on Linux? I run >> QuickBook on Win2K hosted in VMWare on Mac OS X. I choose to do this >> rather than dual boot my laptop (or desktop). Much simpler if it works. I >> don't know if the scanner would work but VMWare usually manages to hide >> almost all details from the applications. >> >> The Windows can partition it's virtual disk to it's heart's content. >> >> Regards, >> Spencer >> > > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux