Re: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61

On Mon January 14 2008 03:47:32 Chris Bannister wrote:
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 04:51:21PM -0500, Jimmy Wu wrote:
am not a big gamer. The only reason I would have Windows is because
there might be unforeseeable circumstances when I may run into Windows
only software. I am sure if I needed to, I could always shrink by
Debian partition later and install XP, right?

As far as I know, M$ doesn't play friendly with other OS's. XP will want
all the HD. You are best to install XP, then Debian. There may be ways
around it but I'm guessing they would be very unpleasant.

Lenny installer had no problem shrinking the Vista partition and
setting up grub dual boot - actually triple boot on the T61 if you
keep the diag partition (recommended).

--Mike Bird


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