Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-31 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:53:08AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Wednesday 31 December 2008 10:29:10 Koh Choon Lin wrote: > > > gparted live CD > > > > Maybe I don't remember quite correctly if its in Debian or Ubuntu, > > doesn't the LiveCD's installation already has Gparted as part of its >

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-31 Thread Jochen Schulz
John Culleton: > > I want to install Linux permanently on this box, which requres > repartitioning. Currently there are two partitions, one for Vista and > one for backup of Vista. I need suggestions for partitioning software > that will allow me to reduce the size of the Vista partition to mak

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-31 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 31 December 2008 10:29:10 Koh Choon Lin wrote: > > gparted live CD > > Maybe I don't remember quite correctly if its in Debian or Ubuntu, > doesn't the LiveCD's installation already has Gparted as part of its > setup, allowing you to resize partitions? > > > Koh Choon Lin I lost a par

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-31 Thread Koh Choon Lin
> gparted live CD Maybe I don't remember quite correctly if its in Debian or Ubuntu, doesn't the LiveCD's installation already has Gparted as part of its setup, allowing you to resize partitions? Koh Choon Lin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

RE: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Javier del Río
@lists.debian.org Asunto: Partioning Vista equipped laptop. I just bought an HP Pavilion dv9925nr wiht Vista for my wife. Knoppix runs on it but I haven't sorted out the wireless LAN connection yet for Knoppix. I want to install Linux permanently on this box, which requres repartiti

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> I had to re-install Vista in order to do the update, the update required > runing in Vista for the GUI. I read somewhere that some laptops now come with "software BIOS", so removing the Vista rescue partition would actually remove the BIOS. What's fact and what's fiction here? Being so, how co

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Ken Teague
John Culleton wrote: > I want to install Linux permanently on this box, which requres > repartitioning. Currently there are two partitions, one for Vista and > one for backup of Vista. I need suggestions for partitioning software > that will allow me to reduce the size of the Vista partition to

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Dominique Dumont
Thierry Chatelet writes: > On Tuesday 30 December 2008 22:18:41 John Culleton wrote: >> I just bought an HP Pavilion dv9925nr wiht Vista for my wife. Knoppix >> runs on it but I haven't sorted out the wireless LAN connection yet >> for Knoppix. >> >> I want to install Linux permanently on this b

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Carl Fink escreveu: > I recommend leaving the recovery partition if you plan to keep using Vista > at all, shrinking the main Vista partition, and creating at least three new > ones: an ext3 partition for Linux, a swap partition, and a VFAT partition > for data that can be shared between Vista and

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Bob McGowan
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 12:51 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 04:18:41PM -0500, John Culleton wrote: > > I just bought an HP Pavilion dv9925nr wiht Vista for my wife. Knoppix > I recommend leaving the recovery partition if you plan to keep using Vista Let me strongly encourage

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Joel Roth
> On Tuesday 30 December 2008 22:18:41 John Culleton wrote: > > I just bought an HP Pavilion dv9925nr wiht Vista for my wife. Knoppix > > runs on it but I haven't sorted out the wireless LAN connection yet > > for Knoppix. > > > > I want to install Linux permanently on this box, which requres > >

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Bob McGowan
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 16:18 -0500, John Culleton wrote: > I just bought an HP Pavilion dv9925nr wiht Vista for my wife. Knoppix > runs on it but I haven't sorted out the wireless LAN connection yet > for Knoppix. > > I want to install Linux permanently on this box, which requres > repartition

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 04:18:41PM -0500, John Culleton wrote: > I just bought an HP Pavilion dv9925nr wiht Vista for my wife. Knoppix > runs on it but I haven't sorted out the wireless LAN connection yet > for Knoppix. > > I want to install Linux permanently on this box, which requres > repa

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 30 December 2008 22:18:41 John Culleton wrote: > I just bought an HP Pavilion dv9925nr wiht Vista for my wife. Knoppix > runs on it but I haven't sorted out the wireless LAN connection yet > for Knoppix. > > I want to install Linux permanently on this box, which requres > repartitioning

Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread John Culleton
I just bought an HP Pavilion dv9925nr wiht Vista for my wife. Knoppix runs on it but I haven't sorted out the wireless LAN connection yet for Knoppix. I want to install Linux permanently on this box, which requres repartitioning. Currently there are two partitions, one for Vista and one for