On 2/12/07, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, February 11, 2007 10:41 pm, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> On 2/11/07, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> My wife is buying a new laptop for her work. She wants not to leave
>> Linux
>> behind, but needs the windoze. Everything is Vista now (apparently the
>> sales person wasn't even enthusiastic, but watcha gonna do?).
>>
>> Is there any problem in defragging and using fips to chamge the HD
>> partitions in Vista?
>> > The machine has an 80 G HD. I figure 50 G for M$, 30 G for FC 5.
>> Comments?
>
> I think that fips is so last-century.
>
> Probably your best bet is the Gnome partition editor gparted.
> Available as a handout at installfests if I am there.
>
> Available for download at < http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ >
>
> carl
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Does this assume a Linux platform on which to run?
Guess I have to go look. The "Gnome" part doesn't inspire confidence that
it can be run before Linux is installed.
It is a bootable live CD. Runs without any other software.
Did fips stop working for some Y2K reason?
That I know of, fips has not been kept up to date with OS changes
since perhaps Windows 98.
Other thoughts, after an overnight rest.
It is likely that the computer manufacturer has provided you with the
means to make a complete image backup of the disk. Do this, just for
safety. You can always go back to square one. This may be a one-time
thing. It saves their having to ship restore discs with the system.
It is likely that the OS manufacturer has provided you with the means
to partition the disk. If this is like the most recent Windows that I
worked with a couple of months ago, it is a one-time thing, but it
works. So you could reduce "partition C" to perhaps half of its
original size, leaving the other half for the Linux of your choice.
carl
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