Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 04:18:41PM -0500, John Culleton wrote:
> I just bought an HP Pavilion dv9925nr wiht Vista for my wife. Knoppix
> runs on it but I haven't sorted out the wireless LAN connection yet
> for Knoppix.
>
> I want to install Linux permanently on this box, which requres
> repartitioning. Currently there are two partitions, one for Vista and
> one for backup of Vista. I need suggestions for partitioning software
> that will allow me to reduce the size of the Vista partition to make
> room for a Debian partition. Suggestions on preparing the Vista
> partion prior to reduction in size are also welcome. Other than one
> or two emails and Firefox I have added no files to the system.
I found with my Pavilion DV6458se (which I'm typing this on) that the Debian
installer could not reliably partition the hard drive. However, the Ubuntu
Intrepid installer worked flawlessly--thus I'm typing this from an Ubuntu
session. Ubuntu is very Debian-like and I had very little trouble getting
used to it. Partitioning is part of the installation process and reasonably
straightforward.
I recommend leaving the recovery partition if you plan to keep using Vista
at all, shrinking the main Vista partition, and creating at least three new
ones: an ext3 partition for Linux, a swap partition, and a VFAT partition
for data that can be shared between Vista and Linux. Sizes will depend on
your requirements.
Note to Debian developers: I'd be glad to help debug the Debian installer on
this box, if anyone is interested.
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