Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

[Sjoerd Hardeman]

mess-mate wrote:

Le 29/06/2009 13:37, Lorenzo Beretta a écrit :

Alan Greenberger ha scritto:

On 2009-06-28, Zachary Uram <net...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
(64bit) installed on it. Not sure if that is 1 huge partition or not.
I assume it is NTFS. 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. Also what do you
recommend for swap size (it has 4GB ram) and just have 1 big root
partition with everything on it or split 125GB for root / and 125GB
for /home partitions. Also how do I setup GRUB to then dual boot Vista
and Debian? I've only used LILO as my boot manager in the past?

Regards,
Zach

It may be safer to let Vista shrink its own partition:
In Start/searchbar type Computer Management
Computer Management / Storage / Disk Management
right click on C: / Shrink Volume

quote - that's how I did it on my laptop.
As for your other question - "how to partition?" is a faq, with around
1234567 possible answers; as for grub, it detects vista automagically
(as "Vista/Longhonrn")

Hi, if it can help..

I didn't need vista to make room.

b.r.

I've installed ma debian (on a laptop) alongside vista using 'gparted' on a bootable cd. After that i installed ma debian (netinstall squeeze) and indeed, grub detected vista and made my menu.list.

Yup, no problem as long as you have some unpartitioned disk space on your hard drive. If not, you can use gparted from a live cd to shrink your windows partition. It might be that you need to defragment (in windows!) your partition first. If this all sound too complicated, getting a second hard drive and installing linux on that is of course also an option.

Sjoerd

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