Quoting Mike McMullin
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...
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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?
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. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org