I recommend you have a look at SliTaz, http://www.slitaz.org/en/get/ .
The Cooking distribution has Audacity. I have installed SliTaz on an old
laptop with only 128Mb RAM and it was fine. The GUI is impressive for
its size and the package handling intuitive. SliTaz is under active
development.
Alright, here goes.
Despite my long held dislike of Windows, and 7 in particular, it's
managed to keep me contented long enough to last a whole three months,
and one small issue that stubbornly refuses to be fixed is persuading
me to go home to Linux at last.
Except as past experience has taught
On 02/04/11 12:54, StarLion wrote:
Now, as I understand it, using GParted to resized a Win7 partition
causes it to fail to boot. So firstly, how exactly does one get around
this safely, without having to reinstall Windows itself?
Secondly, can legacy GRUB chainload Windows 7, or do I have to
I have just installed Win7 Home Basic into a partition that had
previously held Win XP Home and been resized with GParted. I then
followed that up with an installation of Linux Mint Debian and that
detected the Win 7 instance and set up dual booting.
Now, I realise that what I have described
On Saturday 02 Apr 2011, StarLion wrote:
Now, as I understand it, using GParted to resized a Win7 partition
causes it to fail to boot. So firstly, how exactly does one get around
this safely, without having to reinstall Windows itself?
Secondly, can legacy GRUB chainload Windows 7, or do I
On Saturday 02 Apr 2011, Terry Coles wrote:
It may well be that later versions of GParted have solved this anyway; this
thread dates from 2009.
This https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowtoResizeWindowsPartitions is more
recent.
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64 bit computing
This https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowtoResizeWindowsPartitions is more
recent.
Explains it neatly. That should solve the partition part of it. Now
the only real possible problem is the bootloader itself.
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On Saturday 02 Apr 2011, StarLion wrote:
This https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowtoResizeWindowsPartitions is
more recent.
Explains it neatly. That should solve the partition part of it. Now
the only real possible problem is the bootloader itself.
I'm not an expert on Grub (2 or
When I got my new computer a few months ago, it came with Windows 7 and I
used Windows 7's own Disk Management tool to resize my window partition.
However, I discovered I wasn't able to resize it down to as small as I hoped
I might, due to some data in the middle of the drive that wouldn't move (I
On 02/04/11 15:04, Natalie Hooper wrote:
When I got my new computer a few months ago, it came with Windows 7 and I
used Windows 7's own Disk Management tool to resize my window partition.
However, I discovered I wasn't able to resize it down to as small as I hoped
I might, due to some data in
On 2 April 2011 17:29, Sean Gibbins s...@funkygibbins.me.uk wrote:
I seem to recall way back when (Red Hat 4?) having to defrag Windows
prior to shrinking the partition to ensure that problems of this sort
were avoided, at least that was the advice the HOWTO mag I bought
offered so that's
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