David, GPartED, from my experience is VERY safe. All you have to do is simple: do a chkdsk in Vista (or as they call it "Error checking"), then boot GPartED, and then do a simple resize.
I would recommend creating the backup DVD of your PDA using the Lenovo tools (there should be a tool to backup the PDA to 2 CD's, one of them is bootable) due to a simple reasons: sometimes during GRUB writing, you cannot press the "Access IBM"/"Lenovo Care"/whatever-they-call-it-these-days blue button when booting to go to the PDA boot partition (although you can still go to Vista). Thanks, Hetz On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:36 PM, David Shwatrz <[email protected]> wrote: >>Use some partitioning management software like GPartED live CD >>(http://gparted.sourceforge.net/) to make room for a Linux >>distribution of your choice. Make sure after you've made room, > > How can I make room being safe that I don't ruin anything in the windows ? > the situation is now that there is one big partition for windows, and the PDA > you talked about. > > I must add that I never used GPartED ; there were cases that I > installed dual boot, but it was when there was already one (or more) > free partitions for linux . > > > Regards, > DS > -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
