Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-31 Thread Koh Choon Lin
gparted live CD Maybe I don't remember quite correctly if its in Debian or Ubuntu, doesn't the LiveCD's installation already has Gparted as part of its setup, allowing you to resize partitions? Koh Choon Lin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-31 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 31 December 2008 10:29:10 Koh Choon Lin wrote: gparted live CD Maybe I don't remember quite correctly if its in Debian or Ubuntu, doesn't the LiveCD's installation already has Gparted as part of its setup, allowing you to resize partitions? Koh Choon Lin I lost a partition

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-31 Thread Jochen Schulz
John Culleton: I want to install Linux permanently on this box, which requres repartitioning. Currently there are two partitions, one for Vista and one for backup of Vista. I need suggestions for partitioning software that will allow me to reduce the size of the Vista partition to make

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-31 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:53:08AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Wednesday 31 December 2008 10:29:10 Koh Choon Lin wrote: gparted live CD Maybe I don't remember quite correctly if its in Debian or Ubuntu, doesn't the LiveCD's installation already has Gparted as part of its setup,

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 30 December 2008 22:18:41 John Culleton wrote: I just bought an HP Pavilion dv9925nr wiht Vista for my wife. Knoppix runs on it but I haven't sorted out the wireless LAN connection yet for Knoppix. I want to install Linux permanently on this box, which requres repartitioning.

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 04:18:41PM -0500, John Culleton wrote: I just bought an HP Pavilion dv9925nr wiht Vista for my wife. Knoppix runs on it but I haven't sorted out the wireless LAN connection yet for Knoppix. I want to install Linux permanently on this box, which requres

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Bob McGowan
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 16:18 -0500, John Culleton wrote: I just bought an HP Pavilion dv9925nr wiht Vista for my wife. Knoppix runs on it but I haven't sorted out the wireless LAN connection yet for Knoppix. I want to install Linux permanently on this box, which requres repartitioning.

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Joel Roth
On Tuesday 30 December 2008 22:18:41 John Culleton wrote: I just bought an HP Pavilion dv9925nr wiht Vista for my wife. Knoppix runs on it but I haven't sorted out the wireless LAN connection yet for Knoppix. I want to install Linux permanently on this box, which requres

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Bob McGowan
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 12:51 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 04:18:41PM -0500, John Culleton wrote: I just bought an HP Pavilion dv9925nr wiht Vista for my wife. Knoppix snip I recommend leaving the recovery partition if you plan to keep using Vista snip Let me strongly

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Carl Fink escreveu: I recommend leaving the recovery partition if you plan to keep using Vista at all, shrinking the main Vista partition, and creating at least three new ones: an ext3 partition for Linux, a swap partition, and a VFAT partition for data that can be shared between Vista and

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Dominique Dumont
Thierry Chatelet tchate...@free.fr writes: On Tuesday 30 December 2008 22:18:41 John Culleton wrote: I just bought an HP Pavilion dv9925nr wiht Vista for my wife. Knoppix runs on it but I haven't sorted out the wireless LAN connection yet for Knoppix. I want to install Linux permanently on

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Ken Teague
John Culleton wrote: I want to install Linux permanently on this box, which requres repartitioning. Currently there are two partitions, one for Vista and one for backup of Vista. I need suggestions for partitioning software that will allow me to reduce the size of the Vista partition to

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I had to re-install Vista in order to do the update, the update required runing in Vista for the GUI. I read somewhere that some laptops now come with software BIOS, so removing the Vista rescue partition would actually remove the BIOS. What's fact and what's fiction here? Being so, how could

RE: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Javier del Río
Hello, John. I used sometimes the Acronis Disk Director software. You can download a trial version from www.acronis.com. Then, you can resize your disk. Or, may be, you prepare a boot CD, and start with him. Be careful with the version of Acronis, because an old version could damage your

Re: partioning for dual boot

2002-10-06 Thread Kent West
Bruce Park wrote: Hello all, I didn't see a mail list for installation problems so I decided to try this group. If this is the wrong place for this, I apologize in advance. I'm trying to install a debian system but I need to have the partition set up correctly. I currently have Windows

Re: partioning, ssh, rawrite w/ a Mac

2001-03-06 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 12:01:24PM -0600, dmeiser wrote: I am going to attempt to install Debian on a 100 Mhz Pentium I with a 1 Gig HD, and was wondering what would be a good partion system would be. I'm not quite sure. depending on your deadlines so forth, i'd do this: 1) /swap =

Re: partioning, ssh, rawrite w/ a Mac

2001-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
dmeiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am going to attempt to install Debian on a 100 Mhz Pentium I with a 1 Gig HD, and was wondering what would be a good partion system would be. I'm not quite sure. Also, I have been trying to ssh into my machine remotely to update it. When I go to log in, it gives

Re: partioning, ssh, rawrite w/ a Mac

2001-03-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 12:01:24PM -0600, dmeiser wrote: Finally, I'm using a Mac to create the boot disks for the P-I mentioned at the top. I have no idea how to rawrite to create the boot disks, and I don't thnk the Mac will do it natively. I looked on some various linux websites and did

Re-Partioning

1999-11-19 Thread Brian Neal
Hi, I put my /var on it's own partion, but didn't realize it got used so much and made it too small. Several times it has almost filled up during apt-gets. I also have /usr/local on another partion which is pretty much empty. Can I tar off the contents of /var and /usr/local and put them on one

Re: Re-Partioning

1999-11-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 06:37:43PM -0600, Brian Neal wrote: Hi, I put my /var on it's own partion, but didn't realize it got used so much and made it too small. Several times it has almost filled up during apt-gets. I also have /usr/local on another partion which is pretty much empty. Can I

Re: Re-Partioning

1999-11-19 Thread Shaul Karl
Hi, I put my /var on it's own partion, but didn't realize it got used so much and made it too small. Several times it has almost filled up during apt-gets. I also have /usr/local on another partion which is pretty much empty. Can I tar off the contents of /var and /usr/local and put them

Re: Partioning HD with more than 1024 cylinders

1999-02-04 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Linux fdisk can partition disks over 1024 cylinders - at least the version I have (2.9g) can. Cfdisk (v0.81) also can. These are the current slink versions in the util-linux package. Another option is the DOS-based Ranish Partition Manager, which you can find here:

Re-partioning a ext2 disk without loosing data

1999-01-22 Thread Mario Bertrand
Hi, Here is my situation. I had windoze installed on a second hard drive that crashed recently. Now i would like to re-intall it on my first hard wich is partioned and formated with linux on it. I have a spare partition for backups purpose at the end of the drive on /dev/hda8 that i can split

Re: partioning disk when running windows 95

1997-11-26 Thread Wintermute
butch wrote: Hi, i have the floppies and i am getting ready to partion disk using fips and cfdisk. well i ahve started and even when going to a dos mode it seems that a win 95 is a hostile machine. i used fips and now i see that part of my disk has an unreconiable format. does anyone