Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2876 mails)

[Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>:

> On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 08:35 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote:
> > I just got my new HP/Compaq 9440 laptop on Friday. It is pre-loaded
> > with Windows Vista, which looks nice...
> >
> > http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/64
> >
> > ...but is already starting to irritate me. In any case, I want to dual
> > boot. I don't suppose I can wipe Vista off of it, since it is a work
> > laptop.
> >
> > I've read that dual-booting under Vista is not as easy as 2k/xp
> > because the partitioning is different. Every guide I've read so far
> > says to have the Windows installer create a partition to be used later
> > for Linux. Well, HP created the partitions for me, so I have little
> > choice.
> >
> > Can I safely (at least reasonably) resize or am I screwed?
>
>   I honestly don't know, did it come with the install disks, or has
> HP/Compaq created an image that resides in the first (hidden) partition
> that you can do a restore from?  I haven't heard anything on M$ tweaking
> NTFS, or did they ship Vista with the new(?) WinFS?

I have a restore disk that I can use. I don't need to worry too much,  
since I haven't even installed Office or anything beyond Pan and  
Thunderbird.

I wonder if SUSE has fingerprint recognition. I need to check that  
out. The "login by swiping" concept is cool.

I think I'm gonna go for it.



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