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Posted: May 21 2004,03:40 QUOTE

You can either use the leftover space as a swap partition, or you can resize your existing Linux partition using a tool like QTParted.  Search for QTparted on "Google".
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Posted: May 21 2004,04:14 QUOTE

Ok great thanks a ton.

One other thing I was wondering. I've got a lot of ogg files I want to put on (several hundred MB's worth). Can I rar those too, copy them to c:, then install from c onto the rest of the free space, and then copy the files from c to my ext2 partition in linux (from linux, of course)? It seems like that would work. But for the future, when I get more oggs (this is all assuming I can get my sound card to work), is there a linux program I can use to make a large zip on multiple floppies, similar to winrar for windows?

and one last thing: I ran toram on my barton 2500+ and it was fast. How much slower will it be on my 100 mhz pentium with 24 mB ram (to be upgraded to 72 soon I hope) laptop? I'm afraid I spoiled myself...

DSL is such a great distro. I'll be able to bring my old laptop into school now and everyone's gonna be like "whats that" and I'll be able to tell those windows punks that it is linux and that it is a pretty DSL. Its got lots of really useful apps that require the bare minimum to run. Its great. I know all this prolly should go in the feedback section, but for all those newbs who are trying to get this to work on their laptop/slow comp-hopefully another positive opinion from a relatively n00bie newb will help them through the pain.  :angry: Its hard I know.
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Posted: May 23 2004,04:28 QUOTE

Quote (bjacobson @ May 20 2004,15:21)
Once I delete the first partition, what can I do to get my space back?

What do you mean delete the 1st parition...
Oh once you have installed the DSL to harddrive

I used that 50 megs for a swap file, that way it isnt wasted

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Posted: May 23 2004,04:30 QUOTE

Quote (bjacobson @ May 21 2004,00:14)
Ok great thanks a ton.
and one last thing: I ran toram on my barton 2500+ and it was fast. How much slower will it be on my 100 mhz pentium with 24 mB ram (to be upgraded to 72 soon I hope) laptop? I'm afraid I spoiled myself...

Ummm...25 times slower!!!!!

Dont compare the 100 to the 2500...you will be veeery dissapointed if you try to!

Brian
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Posted: May 31 2004,16:59 QUOTE

Edit: wrong spot, don't mind me, I got three hours of sleep.   :p
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