Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2876 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

M Harris wrote:
> On Monday 21 May 2007 10:35, Kai Ponte wrote:
>   
>> 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?
>>     
>         hi Kai,
>
>         You can do this, but the other way around. I assume that your HP came with 
> either a restore disk or a restore partition?
>
>         The technique is to blow the disk away and install openSUSE *first* leaving a 
> workable partition at the front-end of the drive (appropriate and large 
> enough) for you to *restore* vista into when you are done installing 
> openSUSE. 
>
>   

And also create a FAT32 partition, where "My Documents" can be moved to,
for data interchange between the two systems.


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