On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:54:57 +0200, Ogya Chief <ogyach...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > > > I have just bought a pc with Windows 7 pre-installed and I want to > partition and install debian on the drive. If I use the debian installer's > partitioner, what precautions do I have to take in order not to damage the > Windows partition? > > > > Kind regards, > > Ogya
Hi, Kinda late to reply on this, but yah... My wife own a Compaq laptop with Windows 7 preinstalled. A few days ago i have installed Debian testing (the daily netinst cd) on it. I have resized the windows NTFS partition with the debian installer. Just select that option to manualy manage the partition when you are on the partitions screen. Then i created the needed linux partitions. Then installed the base install and installed all my lovely toys. All was ok, just got a little bonus issue, nothing to do with the partitioning (i think). Grub not showing the windows 7 entry in the bootloader menu. os-prober was been detecting 3 Windows operating systems (1 win7 and 2 of Vista which i don't have). Had need to run update-grub to get this issue fixed. Well, i still have an issue with showing 3 windows operating systems in the bootloader, but that's another issue :) Maybe the black magic of the Compaq recovery utility for Windows. I still need to check. Anyway, i recommend you make a good backup before doing irreversible things. Bah, i guess your install is already done a few days ago :) But so you know about this one which i find kinda nice and easy to do. Have a nice day all, David, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/424f1b4b324356e4fcd2c7d25b841...@sun.pinguin.local
