[opensuse] Dual Boot Vista on Laptop?
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? -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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...
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. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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. Good luck... -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Quoting James Knott
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.
Okay, thanks. I'll give it a go tonight and see what happens. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 21 May 2007 16:32, James Knott wrote:
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. Yes, yes... and another thing...
... when you restore vista (after installing opensuse) your machine will only boot into vista... because the grub mbr will be gone... not to worry. After you restore vista, and make sure it works, then boot into opensuse from the DVD (like you are going to install) only don't update/install... take the *other* install option and from there *repair* the installation. One of the options is to restore the mbr... which will allow opensuse to boot from grub. But there is more... once you can boot into opensuse again. Then you will need to modify the /boot/grub/menu.lst file so that you can boot vista from grub. Good luck... -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----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...
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?
-- 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
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