Zachary Uram wrote: > I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium > ... Can someone please tell me exactly what I must do to shrink the > Vista install by 50% and install Debian squeeze (64bit AMD) on the > 250GB partition that will be freed > ... (it has 4GB ram) ...
I did dual boot ~10 years ago. Then I discovered hard drive mobile docks and bought a second drive. Then as I bought newer computers, I put Linux on some and Windows on others. Now there is free (as in beer and/or as in freedom) virtual machine software for Windows, Linux, and others. Virtualization is very liberating -- you can backup/restore VM images with copy/paste, zip/unzip, etc., you can version control VM images, you can deploy VM images to different/multiple VM hosts, etc.. Best of all, you can experiment with impunity -- a shutdown/restore/start cycle takes only minutes. Contrast that to imaging/re-imaging a Vista/Linux dual-boot hard drive (a non-trivial problem) or re-installing from scratch and re-activating Vista (2 activations by Internet, then you need to telephone Microsoft and convince them you're not a pirate). Virtualization saves tremendous amounts of time, effort, and expense. I recommend that you leave Windows alone, download/install the VM technology of your choice (VMWare, Microsoft, Sun, etc.), and download/run or build/run a Debian VM. HTH, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
