M Harris wrote: > On Monday 21 May 2007 10:35, Kai Ponte wrote: > >> I've read that dual-booting under Vista is not as easy as 2k/xp >> because the partitioning is different. Every guide I've read so far >> says to have the Windows installer create a partition to be used later >> for Linux. Well, HP created the partitions for me, so I have little >> choice. >> >> Can I safely (at least reasonably) resize or am I screwed? >> > hi Kai, > > You can do this, but the other way around. I assume that your HP came > with > either a restore disk or a restore partition? > > The technique is to blow the disk away and install openSUSE *first* > leaving a > workable partition at the front-end of the drive (appropriate and large > enough) for you to *restore* vista into when you are done installing > openSUSE. > >
And also create a FAT32 partition, where "My Documents" can be moved to, for data interchange between the two systems. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
