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Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?



Zachary Uram <netrek@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
> (64bit) installed on it. Not sure if that is 1 huge partition or not.
> I assume it is NTFS. Can someone please tell me exactly what I must do
> to shrink the Vista install by 50% and install Debian squeeze (64bit
> AMD) on the 250GB partition that will be freed.

I used to use PartitionMagic to shrink Windows partitions.  Not sure if
it still works with Vista, but I would think the newest version has
support for it.  A free vesion is gparted, but I have never used this.

-- 
John L. Fjellstad
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