I should clarify that my dual booting days are long gone. My description/experience of dual booting is based on use with Ubuntu 5.10 and 6.06, and Debian (Sarge). There are obviously newer tools that make it easier now.
-Chris On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Dante Lanznaster <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Chris Louden <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> A big problem with dual booting now is that windows restore disks >> provided from the manufacturer actually deploy an image to the drive >> rather then perform an install. Therefore forcing users to shrink the >> partition. Which can of course make dual booting more of a pain for >> the novice user. > > Vista/2008/7's Disk Management console allows for safe shrinking of > partitions, including system partition. > >> >> >> The biggest problem I dealt with when I previously dual booted was >> despite the windows installation being brand new it could be badly >> fragmented. If you re size the disk over fragmented files this more >> then likely would cause the windows installation to no longer boot. >> Performing a defrag (preferably in safe mode) prior installing Linux >> would prevented the problem. I was then able to shrink the windows >> partition and install Linux on the remaining. > > Any app that does resizing will deal accordingly with this, if it doesn't, > it's being misused. I used GParted, Partition Magic, ntfsresize, > Vista/2008/7 Disk Management, and all of them moved the data appropriately. > The only one that requires extreme care is ntfsresize which requires the > user to manually delete and recreate the partition with the new size > (scary). > >> >> >> I only make a swap on laptops that will suspend/hibernate and on >> desktops that will be dealing with large media files when sufficient >> RAM is not present. >> >> -Chris >> >> >> >> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Randall Whitman <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> >> I am going to partition a 40 gig drive on a presario laptop. >> >> I want to make the first 10 gigs ntfs for windows os >> >> and the second 10 gigs ext3 for ubuntu os >> >> and the 3rd 20 gig partition for data. >> > >> > In addition to system and data partitions, >> > I always make a swap partition. >> > /Randall >> > _______________________________________________ >> > LinuxUsers mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
