[SATLUG] Installfest & Vista

[Jose Calderon]

I'm not as experienced as some others in this group, but I have installed a
couple of distros on my desktop running Vista with no problems resizing the
NTFS partition.  What time does the InstallFest begin and where is it held
(Nail Tech Center?)?  I work in the SAC reading lab tomorrow and may be able
to stop in before or after work.
-Jose



On 9/7/07, Jonathan Hull <masterr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That's a pain. It's not a simple reboot and scan as with XP. You think
> Microsoft purposely made it a pain so that noobies would "break" it
> and not know how to fix it thus thinking Linux broke it? (Just a
> thought)
>
> -Jon
>
> On 9/6/07, Victor <victor.trevino at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-gparted-to-resize-your-windows-vista-partition/
> >
> > On 9/6/07, Jonathan Hull <masterr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I recently dual booted a friends laptop running vista. From what I
> > > heard it is not safe to resize a Vista NTFS partition with any linux
> > > tool (I hear it doesn't handle NTFS the same as XP) so you are
> > > supposed to use the built in "shrink" of Vista's disk manager. This
> > > works, but for me it only shrank it to half the size and would not go
> > > any less (not sure why), so it's not quite as flexible. What we ended
> > > up doing instead since it was a new laptop and vista was a fresh
> > > install was to wipe the drive, install vista on a smaller partition,
> > > and then install linux in the remaining. It worked, but that might
> > > something everyone wants to do. Anyone know of a way to shrink vista
> > > more than half safely?
> > >
> > > -Jon
> > >
> > > On 9/6/07, Jim Wells, President <president at satlug.org> wrote:
> > > > Hello everyone.
> > > >
> > > > At present, we have about 20 people who have signed up to install
> Linux
> > > on a
> > > > dual-boot basis on Saturday.  Some of them are coming in with Vista
> on
> > > their
> > > > machines.  Does anyone on the list, in or near San Antonio, have any
> > > > experience dual-booting Linux on a machine already running Vista?  I
> > > realize
> > > > there was a thread a day or two ago but we were hoping that someone
> > > would be
> > > > there who has actually done the install themselves.
> > > >
> > > > If you have this experience & can come help out Saturday morning,
> please
> > > > give us a helping hand.  If you can help please e-mail me directly.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance,
> > > >
> > > > Jim Wells, President
> > > > San Antonio Linux Users Group
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