On 2009-06-28, Zachary Uram <net...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. Also what do you > recommend for swap size (it has 4GB ram) and just have 1 big root > partition with everything on it or split 125GB for root / and 125GB > for /home partitions. Also how do I setup GRUB to then dual boot Vista > and Debian? I've only used LILO as my boot manager in the past? > > Regards, > Zach
It may be safer to let Vista shrink its own partition: In Start/searchbar type Computer Management Computer Management / Storage / Disk Management right click on C: / Shrink Volume -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org