Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Thierry Chatelet<tchatelet@free.fr> wrote:
> On Sunday 28 June 2009 09:50:52 John L Fjellstad wrote:
>> 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
>> web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
>
> Live gparted cd works fine.
>
+1 (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/)
Also, if I remember correctly, my MS partition had to be defrag'd. I
used a third party program (don't recall which one) because it was my
understanding that the one that comes with MS will not do in such a
way that is conducive to sharing.
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