Re: Installing 10.3 with Vista
- From: Will Honea <whonea@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 23:29:25 -0600
Chris Ward wrote:
On Sun, 04 May 2008 12:09:15 -0500, Paul Thompson wrote:
Paul J Gans wrote:
"Blattus Slafaly ? (3) ¼ :)" <boobooililililil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I'm glad I waited to hear from you folks! I was about to reformat D:
Paul Thompson wrote:
I just got a Vista notebook with 2 120G SATA drives. Vista reports 3
drives, the OS on C:, Data D:, and HP RECOVERY E:. I'd like to
install OpenSuSE 10.3 on 60G of drive D:.
How should I go about setting up the partitions during installation?
Thanks
Paul
Let OpenSUSE decide and resize the partitions it wants. I would
delete d: and e: and let OpenSUSE use the unformatted space. But that
is just me.
WHOA!
The "recovery" partition might well be the only Vista backup Thompson
has. There may be no separate DVD.
Yes, I think that is stupid on the part of the notebook manufacturers,
but hey...
And I'd not blow D: away either until I knew what was on it.
The openSUSE recommendation probably takes all this into account. I'd
use that, at least until I knew more about D: and E:.
(Data, sdb) and use it but I want to maintain Vista for such things as
games, web sites needing Windows Media, etc. E: is in sda and is for
recovery.
First YaST wanted to take a large part of C: (OS, sda) and that might of
crippled Vista. I could then select sdb but that would lose Vista's data
directory.
What I'd like to do is take most of D: for Linux and leave enough to
keep Vista happy. What is the procedure for doing that?
Thanks
Paul
I had a similar decision to make recently, though with a desktop. Vista
has a built-in re-partitioning tool that is perfectly usable. I
defragged the drive containing Windows, re-sized it, and then created
another partition. Can't remember now whether I made it an extended
partition under Windows with some logical partitions (swap, root, home)
or did that later when installing SUSE.
The only problem with using ANY re-partitioning tool is that about the best
you can do is shrink the Vista partition (same holds true for XP and W2K as
well on NTFS) by about 50% and that's only if you make sure you defrag the
Win partition, then set the page file size to zero and reboot before you
resize it. Don't forget to re-enable the pagefile when done <g>.
There are also additional recovery tools on most vendor sites. Lenovo has
some very good ones for Vista as well as older versions of Win.
Once you get the Win partition cleaned up, the Vista re-size works well
although like I said you can only shrink the blasted Win partition by
roughly 50% which sucks big time on a 250GB drive!
--
Will Honea
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