Re: Dual boot on SSD. No Windows disks. How ?

2012-01-12 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 12, 2012 11:13 AM, "Armelius Cameron" wrote: > > On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 01:25:40 PM linux guy wrote: > > It turns out the gparted can copy partitions. > > http://www.ghacks.net/2010/06/03/copy-partitions-with-gparted/ > > > > I'm not 100% sure that I am going to need Windows. I won

Re: Dual boot on SSD. No Windows disks. How ?

2012-01-12 Thread Armelius Cameron
On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 01:25:40 PM linux guy wrote: > It turns out the gparted can copy partitions. > http://www.ghacks.net/2010/06/03/copy-partitions-with-gparted/ > > I'm not 100% sure that I am going to need Windows. I won't know until > I buy a piece of software and attempt to run it

Re: Dual boot on SSD. No Windows disks. How ?

2012-01-11 Thread linux guy
It turns out the gparted can copy partitions. http://www.ghacks.net/2010/06/03/copy-partitions-with-gparted/ I'm not 100% sure that I am going to need Windows. I won't know until I buy a piece of software and attempt to run it under wine in a couple months. Does anyone see a problem with install

Re: Dual boot on SSD. No Windows disks. How ?

2012-01-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/11/2012 11:58 AM, Armelius Cameron wrote: 4b. Shrink Windows partition in 500GB HD to whatever you want it to be on SDD Unless things have changed considerably, gparted doesn't copy partitions from one drive to another. Clonezilla does, but won't shrink it. (It comes on its own Live C

Re: Dual boot on SSD. No Windows disks. How ?

2012-01-11 Thread linux guy
Thanks for the replies. My head hurts from thinking about this stuff. FYI, my XPS17 has 2 hard drive bays. I want 1 bay for the SSD, on which I will load Windows and Linux. The other bay is for a 750 GB data drive. I hate Windows. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubsc

Re: Dual boot on SSD. No Windows disks. How ?

2012-01-11 Thread Armelius Cameron
On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 08:19:38 AM linux guy wrote: > I have a new Dell XPS17. > > It came with a 500 GB hard drive loaded with Windows. > > I want to install a 160 GB SSD in my XPS17. I also want to install > Fedora 15. I don't have any Windows disks. > > If I install F15 alone on th

Re: Dual boot on SSD. No Windows disks. How ?

2012-01-11 Thread Emilio Lopez
> I want to install a 160 GB SSD in my XPS17.  I also want to install > Fedora 15.   I don't have any Windows disks. Probably, you could create a rescue cd kit from your old hard drive, you should have a menu item in start menu labeled "Rescue CDs" or something like that. After creating them, you

Re: Dual boot on SSD. No Windows disks. How ?

2012-01-11 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 08:19:38 linux guy wrote: > I have a new Dell XPS17. > It came with a 500 GB hard drive loaded with Windows. > > I want to install a 160 GB SSD in my XPS17. I also want to install > Fedora 15. I don't have any Windows disks. I guess the simplest option would be to

Re: Dual boot on SSD. No Windows disks. How ?

2012-01-11 Thread Terry Polzin
On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 10:42 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:19:38 -0700 > linux guy wrote: > > > I want to install a 160 GB SSD in my XPS17. I also want to install > > Fedora 15. I don't have any Windows disks. > > I have had great success running gparted to shrink windows >

Re: Dual boot on SSD. No Windows disks. How ?

2012-01-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:19:38 -0700 linux guy wrote: > I want to install a 160 GB SSD in my XPS17. I also want to install > Fedora 15. I don't have any Windows disks. I have had great success running gparted to shrink windows partitions and make space for linux from a live CD. Haven't done it w

Dual boot on SSD. No Windows disks. How ?

2012-01-11 Thread linux guy
I have a new Dell XPS17. It came with a 500 GB hard drive loaded with Windows. I want to install a 160 GB SSD in my XPS17. I also want to install Fedora 15. I don't have any Windows disks. If I install F15 alone on the SSD, can I install Windows later or must it be present in the first place