Hi Steve > > When I did that, I’ve got a dialogue that wants to create a new partition > > table. The problem is, I want to install a side-by-side configuration with > > an existing Windows 10 implementation. How do I do that without blowing > > away the Windows partition?
> You would need to resize the existing OS first before installing Debian. I recall needing to "defragment" the Windows partition and then shrink it. After this, the Debian installer understood the situation and offered to use the free (possibly marked as "unallocated") space for the Debian install. (This was around 12 years ago. Not sure if the Debian installer should offer to do this automatically now after a stern warning about having done a backup first? How do other distributions handle this?) Sveta
