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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 21 May 2007 11:35, Kai Ponte wrote:
I just got my new HP/Compaq 9440 laptop on Friday. It is pre-loaded with Windows Vista, which looks nice...
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...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?
-- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com
hi, when you boot from the opensuse install cd it will give you a default scenario for partitioning which is fine for most people. (from my experience anyway) I got this acer aspire 5100 laptop preloaded with vista too about 3 months ago. I installed 10.2, took about 1/2 the drive for linux and 1/2 for vista. Then I wound up wiping the drive anyway and using the whole 100 gig for 10.2. - -- powered by OPENSuSE 10.2 athlon i386 GNU/Linux http://reillyblog.com http://norwichlinuxusersgroup.com 8:14pm up 0:46, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.38, 0.23 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGUjaUlUTSIL6z5CARAjBmAJ4pyVrUWXRRXkW9ufa5DE0tkBUxbgCdFY9+ otqVon/lo7igL1aITDYqiJo= =EdFe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org