[SATLUG] Installfest & Vista

[Victor]

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-gparted-to-resize-your-windows-vista-partition/

On 9/6/07, Jonathan Hull <masterr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I recently dual booted a friends laptop running vista. From what I
> heard it is not safe to resize a Vista NTFS partition with any linux
> tool (I hear it doesn't handle NTFS the same as XP) so you are
> supposed to use the built in "shrink" of Vista's disk manager. This
> works, but for me it only shrank it to half the size and would not go
> any less (not sure why), so it's not quite as flexible. What we ended
> up doing instead since it was a new laptop and vista was a fresh
> install was to wipe the drive, install vista on a smaller partition,
> and then install linux in the remaining. It worked, but that might
> something everyone wants to do. Anyone know of a way to shrink vista
> more than half safely?
>
> -Jon
>
> On 9/6/07, Jim Wells, President <president at satlug.org> wrote:
> > Hello everyone.
> >
> > At present, we have about 20 people who have signed up to install Linux
> on a
> > dual-boot basis on Saturday.  Some of them are coming in with Vista on
> their
> > machines.  Does anyone on the list, in or near San Antonio, have any
> > experience dual-booting Linux on a machine already running Vista?  I
> realize
> > there was a thread a day or two ago but we were hoping that someone
> would be
> > there who has actually done the install themselves.
> >
> > If you have this experience & can come help out Saturday morning, please
> > give us a helping hand.  If you can help please e-mail me directly.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Jim Wells, President
> > San Antonio Linux Users Group
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