Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?
On 2009-06-28, Zachary Uram <netrek@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. Also what do you
> recommend for swap size (it has 4GB ram) and just have 1 big root
> partition with everything on it or split 125GB for root / and 125GB
> for /home partitions. Also how do I setup GRUB to then dual boot Vista
> and Debian? I've only used LILO as my boot manager in the past?
>
> Regards,
> Zach
It may be safer to let Vista shrink its own partition:
In Start/searchbar type Computer Management
Computer Management / Storage / Disk Management
right click on C: / Shrink Volume
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