Re: Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop?

2007-02-01 Thread Terence
On 31/01/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 09:41:07PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 31 Jan 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 04:15:25PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 31 Jan 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: I

Re: Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop?

2007-02-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 01 Feb 2007, Terence wrote: On 31/01/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 09:41:07PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 31 Jan 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 04:15:25PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 31 Jan 2007,

Re: Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop?

2007-02-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 31 Jan 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 09:41:07PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 31 Jan 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 04:15:25PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 31 Jan 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: I failed to

Re: Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop? -SOLVED

2007-02-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 01 Feb 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: Well, it worked this time. I did ntfsresize (from Knoppix); then cfdisk to resize the disk to 11,000 MB with NTFS file type. When I rebooted, Windows again failed to start and I got the rescue stuff. However, instead of giving up and reinstalling Windows

Re: Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop? -SOLVED

2007-02-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:34:03AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 01 Feb 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: Well, it worked this time. I did ntfsresize (from Knoppix); then cfdisk to resize the disk to 11,000 MB with NTFS file type. When I rebooted, Windows again failed to start and I got

Re: Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop?

2007-01-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Jan 2007, Paul Johnson wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm getting a new Thinkpad Z61M and shall be installing Debian (naturally!). When I last did this on a Thinkpad a couple of years ago I just deleted the Windows partition completely, but I have found, *very* rarely, that I

Re: Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop?

2007-01-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 31 Jan 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: I failed to resize the Windows partition (Windows XP) with both the Debian installer disk and qparted. They appeared to work but at the end the partition was still the same size. If I delete the partition and then make a new one (HPFS/NTFS with cfdisk,

Re: Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop?

2007-01-31 Thread Wackojacko
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 31 Jan 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: I failed to resize the Windows partition (Windows XP) with both the Debian installer disk and qparted. They appeared to work but at the end the partition was still the same size. I recently did this on a new dell laptop, but used

Re: Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop?

2007-01-31 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 17:15, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 31 Jan 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: I failed to resize the Windows partition (Windows XP) with both the Debian installer disk and qparted. They appeared to work but at the end the partition was still the same size. I recently

Re: Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop?

2007-01-31 Thread Joey Hess
Kent West wrote: I'm unfamiliar with a resizing option in the Debian installer (but then, I don't install it very often). You can use parted/QParted to (more-or-less safely) resize a partition. Yes, and d-i _uses_ parted to do its resizing. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description:

Re: Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop?

2007-01-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 04:15:25PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 31 Jan 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: I failed to resize the Windows partition (Windows XP) with both the Debian installer disk and qparted. They appeared to work but at the end the partition was still the same size. what

Re: Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop?

2007-01-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 31 Jan 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 04:15:25PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 31 Jan 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: I failed to resize the Windows partition (Windows XP) with both the Debian installer disk and qparted. They appeared to work but at the

Re: Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop?

2007-01-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 09:41:07PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 31 Jan 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 04:15:25PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 31 Jan 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: I failed to resize the Windows partition (Windows XP) with both the

Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop?

2007-01-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm getting a new Thinkpad Z61M and shall be installing Debian (naturally!). When I last did this on a Thinkpad a couple of years ago I just deleted the Windows partition completely, but I have found, *very* rarely, that I needed it. I'd therefore like to keep Windows, at least for the moment,

Re: Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop?

2007-01-30 Thread michael
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 14:05 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm getting a new Thinkpad Z61M and shall be installing Debian (naturally!). When I last did this on a Thinkpad a couple of years ago I just deleted the Windows partition completely, but I have found, *very* rarely, that I needed it.

Re: Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop?

2007-01-30 Thread Kent West
Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm getting a new Thinkpad Z61M and shall be installing Debian (naturally!). I'd therefore like to keep Windows, at least for the moment, so I'll need to shrink its partition. Two questions: a. How small could its partition be? Would 10 GB be enough, or too much?

Re: Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop?

2007-01-30 Thread michael
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 14:26 +, michael wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 14:05 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm getting a new Thinkpad Z61M and shall be installing Debian (naturally!). When I last did this on a Thinkpad a couple of years ago I just deleted the Windows partition completely,

Re: Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop?

2007-01-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:05:31PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm getting a new Thinkpad Z61M and shall be installing Debian (naturally!). When I last did this on a Thinkpad a couple of years ago I just deleted the Windows partition completely, but I have found, *very* rarely, that I

Re: Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop?

2007-01-30 Thread Paul Johnson
Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm getting a new Thinkpad Z61M and shall be installing Debian (naturally!). When I last did this on a Thinkpad a couple of years ago I just deleted the Windows partition completely, but I have found, *very* rarely, that I needed it. I'd therefore like to keep