On 30/05/15 17:31, Reco wrote: >> If you buy a Dell with Windows 7 installed on it, you'd better try and use >> Windows to shrink the partition and make room for Linux. > … You just by an extra 3.5'' form-factor disk and replace the stock > one. Next you install Debian at the new disk, and keep the old one in > case you need your notebook repaired.
3.5" or 2.5"? I thought only "desktop replacements" had 3.5" drives. I think I did similar with the Panasonic I have, bought a new 1TB to replace the 500GB drive and a 2.5" drive case. Loaded fresh 64-bit Windows 7 and Gentoo onto the 1TB drive (the OEM image was 32-bit Win7) and kept the original disk external. I think it wound up being reformatted and used as an off-site backup drive for my web server in the end when one of my existing disks for that purpose developed faults. So there is merit in that suggestion: you get an external HDD that you can use in the meantime and an upgrade at the same time. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55696b03.3030...@longlandclan.yi.org