On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Thierry Chatelet<tchate...@free.fr> wrote: > On Sunday 28 June 2009 09:50:52 John L Fjellstad wrote: >> Zachary Uram <net...@gmail.com> writes: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium >> > (64bit) installed on it. Not sure if that is 1 huge partition or not. >> > I assume it is NTFS. Can someone please tell me exactly what I must do >> > to shrink the Vista install by 50% and install Debian squeeze (64bit >> > AMD) on the 250GB partition that will be freed. >> >> I used to use PartitionMagic to shrink Windows partitions. Not sure if >> it still works with Vista, but I would think the newest version has >> support for it. A free vesion is gparted, but I have never used this. >> >> -- >> John L. Fjellstad >> web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes > > Live gparted cd works fine. > +1 (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/)
Also, if I remember correctly, my MS partition had to be defrag'd. I used a third party program (don't recall which one) because it was my understanding that the one that comes with MS will not do in such a way that is conducive to sharing. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org