"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote in message
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> Richard <c138535@internode.on.net> wrote:
> > a. Is there any other way to non-destructively resize a NTFS
partition
> > apart from Mandrake 9.1's install utility?
>
> You can use a partition magic utility, I believe. I think I also saw
> something called ntfsresizer on freshmeat or somewhere .. google.

Thanks

>
> > b. Any particular gotcha's that people have found with the following
> > hardware P4 Titan 667 Motherboard (GA-8ST667 Series with SiS 645DX
Chipset)
>
> SiS is a general nono for anything.

Why?

> > with onboard audio (which Win Xp identifies as a Avance AC97 Audio using
IRQ
>
> ac97 is a generic name for something which almost satisfies a certain
> interface spec. It may or may not work. In any case, you don't want a
> motherboard or a sound card like that! Get another. Avoid integrated
> anything.

Too late this is what I have.
>
> > 18),PS/2 style mouse (IRQ12), a GeForce2 MX400 with 64Mb, a Kensington
>
> Is geforce ati? If so it will proabbly work - check with xfree86.org as
> to the support in the version of X that comes with mandrake 9.1
>
> > EtheRx KNE 100TX PCI Fast Ethrenet adapter (21143-PD) IRQ 17, ASUS PCI
SC875
>
> Never heard of it. What chip?
>
> > with IBM 9 GB HDD off it, an American Power Conversion UPS ES 350VA USB
UPS
>
> Never heard of it and will likely never work.
>
Worked fine during the power outage I recently had .

> > in a PCI slot but Win XP gives no further details on whether it uses a
IRQ
> > or not, Seagate 40 Gb ATA100 (ST340016A) HDD (which WinXp has taken as a
>
> Standard. Only the ide controller counts, not the disk. What controller?
>
The motherboard.

> > single partition formated as NTFS and I want to change it) Primary
Master
> > IDE (can/will swap it with a IBM HDD of 14Gb) Primary Slave 20 Gb
> > Seagate(ST320423A), Sony CD-ROM CDU5231 and Sony CD-RW CRX210E1, 1 Gb
> > memory.
>
> 1GB means that you will need a specially compiled kernel, or you'll only
> see about 900MB of that.
>
> Peter