gparted saves the day
My boss agrees with me, I should probably have a laptop. My IT guy
doesn't think I need one, despite him not knowing anything about
the actual job I do. We had a little meeting and somehow I managed
to call him a halfwit. I don't usually do such things but I was
feeling grumpy. Eventually I was signed out a crappy little Compaq
Evo.
It had been locked down, I cannot install software on it, and all
that is there are the apps I use for work. The first order of
business was to dual boot it with Debian unstable. I intended to
just take it home and reinstall windows XP after shrinking the
single partition but knew that halfwit would refuse to reinstall
the apps I needed and make noise about me messing with the
computer.
Instead I took it home and downloaded
gparted, the
Gnome Partition Editor, it has a 25MB live CD ISO which I then
booted, re-sized my NTFS partition , allowing 6GB's for Debian.
Gparted was very easy to use and worked like a charm. The Debian
install went smoothly except for some reason Grub wouldn't install
so I had to use Lilo instead. Now I can boot into linux on my
commutes to and from work.
My new favorite band is the
Polyphonic
Spree, you might recall they did the soundtrack to
Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind, one of those wonderfully quirky movies that
luckily Hollywood still have the sense to occasionally make.