Win-7 for all its faults does have one thing going for it. It's really easy to resize the partition and create additional ones for loading Linux. Win-7 has it's own built in partioning tool. I used it to repartition the disk on my laptop and load Ubuntu. Ubuntu correctly identified the Win-7 partition and set up grub as the bootloader. It was quite painless. ~chaz [email protected]
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of someone Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 10:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [PLUG] Windows 7 issue... I know this is a Linux list, that's why I can talk about Windows 7 getting in the way of installing Linux on an Asus Eee PC with a 1.6 Ghz atom processor, 1 gig of ram, 250 GB hard drive, web camera built in, 14 hour battery life, and well that probably about covers it. This is the one that costs about $379. No media disks provided. I'm having the store inquire about getting them. My dad's HP laptop has the same problem I found out. If I have to back up this Windows 7 system using Linux, can I do better than dd'ing the whole entire drive? I want to dual boot, the hard drive should be big enough. The trouble is, how do I reinstall the boot loader without installation media? Do I need to dd copy the first four megs of the drive? Do I copy certain files off under Linux? The gentoo based system on CD that I have doesn't boot correctly on this machine, so I can't use a resizing tool :-( I wonder if NTFS-3g which I have a full implementation of now is good enough? I'm about ready to suggest buying another hard drive and popping the Windows 7 drive out in case the computer has to be taken in for servicing. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
