On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Rahul Satuluri <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I know this task will be trivial to the Linux gurus that read this mail.
> Apologies for requesting a task as apparently easy as this one.
>
> I recently got a HP HDX 1370 laptop and it has Windows Vista loaded on
> its entire C Drive of about 500 GB size. I nevertheless want to load
> Fedora as the primary OS because I'd need to do some programs with GCC,
> Octave, LNK-Net and OpenMP.
>
> But I am scared to erase the existing OS and the entire drive and
> repartition it to create the partition for Fedora. As such I know I am
> not going to use more than 100 GB of space for the Vista OS so I can
> load the Linux in the rest. This being my first attempt at loading
> Linux, can some expert help me with this thing kindly? I am on 998 992
> 3868 and can spare a couple of hours in the evening.
>
Vista's disk manager has an option to "Shrink" the partition size.
That should solve the problem.

> Regards
>
> Venkata Rahul, Satuluri
>

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