Re: Resize (reduce) extended partition



Cheers Gordon,

I have come across a couple of CD runnable versions (Suse and Linspire). I
will now have a look at your suggestions.

Thanks again for the friendly inf.

Simon

"Gordon" wrote:

> "Simon McDonald" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ea3$OSQqFHA.2588@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Gordon,
> >
> > I hesitate to say on this newsgroup, but I want to have a play with
> > Linux!!!
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Simon
>
> Nothing wrong with that! May I suggest that before you muck around with
> partitions you try one or more of the distros that will run entirely from
> the CD?
>
> Knoppix is usually the favourite,
> http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
>
> Mepis
> http://www.mepis.org/
>
> Kubuntu
> http://kubuntu.org/
>
> are also good. These will run directly off the CD without installing
> anything on your HDD. A bit slower than a HDD install, but still good enough
> to give you a flavour of Linux
>
> Good luck!
>
>
>
.



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