On Thursday 16 November 2006 15:47, John Pierce wrote: > I just got a dell inspiron 9400 core 2 duo and it has windows xp > installed. If I shrink the partition and install opensuse will this > affect the windows xp installation, such as not make it bootable. > > Any thoughts or assistance is greatly appreciated. > > John > -- > Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at > http://counter.li.org
Even if it did shrink it properly (and the Jury seems still out on that one) Dell makes such a mess of the hard drive with no les than 4 partitions that its probably not a great idea. I just got one of those machines as well, and upon looking at the partition setup and the dell restore disks, and the warning in the manual that some bits are not recoverable if you delete them (that silly dell media partition) I just decided to go get another drive and save the original against the day I decide in a moment of insanity to run Vista. Bet the same brand (about 95 bucks) and there's not even any fiddling with bios when you swap. Other hints on the 9400 and core 2 duo: If you got the ATI card stick with remastered 10.1. 10.2 no workie due to newer xorg disagreeing with the ATI drivers. Stick with SUSE, because some of the "ntU"/Debian distros do not come with a dual processor kernel (smp) and you have to re-compile the kernel to get smp support. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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