Re: Laptop advice

[Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>]

On 01/18/2015 02:11 PM, Bret Busby wrote:

/snip/
> I stand to be corrected if I am wrong, but my understanding is that
> that information applies now to only old computers; all new Wintel and
> WinAMD computers are now UEFI/GPT, rather than FAT/BIOS, and the
> primary/logical partitions system, is obsolete for new computers, with
> UEFI/GPT systems having up to 128 partitions, with no differentiation
> between primary and extended and logical partitions.
>
> Of course, I may be wrong, and, thence, stand to be corrected, if I am wrong.
>
> > I suggest (if you want to keep windows), to shrink the windows partition
> > with
> > gparted (there is a live dvd available), then install debian on the
> > unpartitioned space.

I mentioned in another post to use the Windows software to shrink its size to
make room for Linux. That's still what I recommend. However:
Does GParted work with the UEFI/GPT system? If not, is there a Linux program
that does? One would wish not to have to go to Windows for any future
partitioning needs on that drive.

--doug