[wellylug] Dual boot

[Callum Grant]

There should be no problems resizing the partition. I have done it often on
recent versions of ubuntu and have had no problems with the grub bootloader.
It automatically finds the windows partition and lists it as Other OS:
"Windows Vista/Longhorn.

Cheers, Callum



-----Original Message-----
From: wellylug-bounces at lists.wellylug.org.nz
[mailto:wellylug-bounces at lists.wellylug.org.nz] On Behalf Of Jethro Carr
Sent: Wednesday, 15 August 2007 10:04 p.m.
To: Wellington Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [wellylug] Dual boot

On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 16:47 +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I don't think I've had a dual boot machine since Windows 3.11 ...
> 
> How easy is it to do these days? I'm looking at getting a laptop with 
> Windows Vista (shudder) on it; will that present any problems?
> 
> Do the silly restore disks that seem common with modern laptops 
> generally let you stick windows on a small partition? Or do you have 
> to use some repartitioning software to shrink it afterwards? The 
> debian installer claims to be able to do this; is that known to work 
> with Vista?

hi Richard,

some vendors still provide restore disks, however some of them no longer do,
and instead have a restore partition on the hard disk. Other vendors have
both a restore partition and restore disks.

If you are provided with no restore disks, you will need to use the vendor
supplied software to create them.

Usually the restore partitions are able to reinstall windows on the existing
partition, but if you have adjusted the partition stucture, you may need to
use the disks.

cheers,

--
Jethro Carr

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