I run linux, primarily. When I need access to a Windows workstation, I use a virtual machine on VmWare-Server v.2.0. I have an XP build that, originally, had a single, 10 GB C:\ partition. I have installed lots of stuff on it including some pretty hefty Cisco and Windows applications and I was running out of space. I needed to increase the size of the partition without breaking anything, so I used a couple of nifty tools to do it.

First of all, be sure to backup your virtual machine files. You should do that anyway… I have multiple, pocket-sized external hard drives that I use for on-the-fly backups. I also have some larger, powered drives that I use at home for mega backups. Disk space is cheap. Why skimp?
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Installing a wireless card in linux is a breeze these days. I have a Fedora 10 build. Here’s how I did it (Most of these tasks need to be done as root):

1. Find out how your machine recognizes your wireless card. Do a simple lspci to be sure you can see the card:

[root@localserver ~]#lspci
...
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 01)
...

I got a lot more output than that, but the only thing I am concerned with here are my network cards. In particular, the BCM4312 entry.
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