Re: Install on new computer keeping OEM OS

2009-12-14 Thread Mattias Hellström
That said, I haven't seen anything go wrong with gparted / parted, well ever (in my memory, including expanding and shrinking an xp machine original ntfs drives, to fit linux). I do this a lot and rarely see any problems. However I just repaired a shrunken NTFS partition with wrong parameters

Install on new computer keeping OEM OS

2009-12-12 Thread Alan Evans
Hello! I just got a brand-new machine with Windows 7 pre-installed on its massive hard drive. Of course, Fedora is more my style, but I'd like to keep the original OS intact and dual boot. My question is this then: How safe is it really to allow the installer to resize the existing partition

Re: Install on new computer keeping OEM OS

2009-12-12 Thread David Timms
On 12/13/2009 05:38 AM, Alan Evans wrote: I just got a brand-new machine with Windows 7 pre-installed on its massive hard drive. Of course, Fedora is more my style, but I'd like to keep the original OS intact and dual boot. My question is this then: How safe is it really to allow the

Re: Install on new computer keeping OEM OS

2009-12-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 10:38 -0800, Alan Evans wrote: Hello! I just got a brand-new machine with Windows 7 pre-installed on its massive hard drive. Of course, Fedora is more my style, but I'd like to keep the original OS intact and dual boot. My question is this then: How safe is it really

Re: Install on new computer keeping OEM OS

2009-12-12 Thread Mike Chambers
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 10:38 -0800, Alan Evans wrote: Hello! I just got a brand-new machine with Windows 7 pre-installed on its massive hard drive. Of course, Fedora is more my style, but I'd like to keep the original OS intact and dual boot. My question is this then: How safe is it really

Re: Install on new computer keeping OEM OS

2009-12-12 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 06:25 +1100, David Timms wrote: On 12/13/2009 05:38 AM, Alan Evans wrote: I just got a brand-new machine with Windows 7 pre-installed on its massive hard drive. Of course, Fedora is more my style, but I'd like to keep the original OS intact and dual boot. My

Re: Install on new computer keeping OEM OS

2009-12-12 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 22:52 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 10:38 -0800, Alan Evans wrote: Hello! I just got a brand-new machine with Windows 7 pre-installed on its massive hard drive. Of course, Fedora is more my style, but I'd like to keep the original OS

Re: Install on new computer keeping OEM OS

2009-12-12 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Sat, 12/12/09, Alan Evans ame.fed...@gmail.com wrote: From: Alan Evans ame.fed...@gmail.com Subject: Install on new computer keeping OEM OS To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 10:38 AM

Re: Install on new computer keeping OEM OS

2009-12-12 Thread Aldo Foot
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Alan Evans ame.fed...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! I just got a brand-new machine with Windows 7 pre-installed on its massive hard drive. Of course, Fedora is more my style, but I'd like to keep the original OS intact and dual boot. My question is this then: How