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Dave at Senokian pointed me to the GNOME partititon manager software as an ISO image to deal with my broken disk partitions.  This morning I’ve reformatted my old XP partition to an ext3 linux partition, and using that as my file store from now on.

Its taken me a couple of months of running Ubuntu on my laptop to take this step, gaining confidence in the operating system.  Recently, its been getting to the point that the windows partition was far more hassle than its confort blanket value, so its gone.

The bootable ISO disk works well as a replacement for norton partition magic for me anyway.

Just a quick update on where we are:

• the repeated delays in the release of Zimbra 5.0 which we need to migrate our remaining 15 email users is holding up a full migration away from Outlook/Exchange. The 2 existing users are very happy with Zimbra.
• Our own CRM/EIS system is nearing betatesting, but has taken twice as long as planned
• We now have a working Trixbox system with BRI card that Senokian have supplied, and I just need to find the time to configure and test it fully
• Our apache web hosting has worked well for over a year, and is very relaible.
• I have been totally on  Ubuntu/zimbra/openoffice/firefox for months now, and its great, very reliable.  The only annoying feature is the lack of working WPA on my laptop wifi, perhaps I may get this sorted one day.

Thats about it. Its a very busy time at work for me, and the migration is taking a back seat to other business issues as expected in our busiest time of year, but its still ploughing ahead.