Hello! I am running a dual boot system Kubuntu 9.10 I think and Windows 7, they are on the same disk. Since this is a desktop machine I just let the install go to default and I ended up with a partition of about 250 for each. Everything works great, I do use the Windows 7 system as I have moved to a 64 bit processor and I am to lazy to set up wine on a 64 bit processor to run 32 bit programs. So far there has been no problem.
Just a note, Dale F. Victor Astoria, Oregon member of this group for over ten years now. I used to live in Portland. On Tuesday 22 December 2009 06:28:24 pm Mark Phillips wrote: > I have a new Dell Vostro laptop and I want to add Debian to it. It has > Windows 7 Home Premium on it. When I went into the Windows 7 disk manager > all I could get was 1/2 of the C partition - 143 GB for Debian, and it > reserved the other 143 GB for Windows 7, even though it is only using 16GB > of the disk! > > Is this some evil trick by Microsoft to keep people from dual booting, or > is there some reason Windows 7 needs all 143 GB for itself when all the > files on the disk amount to 16GB??? What am I missing? > > Can I just use gparted to resize the drive the way I want it - 40GB or 60GB > for Windows and the rest for a real operating system like Debian? ;-) > > Thanks! > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug