[NTLUG:Discuss] Vista vs Ubuntu 7.04

[Mike LaPlante]

I have the same laptop. I was upset that Dell only offered Vista and no 
XP. However, Vista has a built in partition shrink utility that XP 
doesn't. This came in very handy when I wanted to put Fedora on my new 
laptop. The utility is in the disk management stuff under the control 
panel. I just selected the Vista partition which was like 50gb, then 
shrunk it down to 25gb. Then I booted my Fedora CD and configured all my 
regular ext3 partitions and completed the install. It was cake.

Fedora found all my hardware with the exception of the built-in dell 
wireless. If yours is the same chipset as mine you need to use NDIS 
wrappers. That is fairly easy though.

Mike

Carlos Wesbrooks wrote:
> I am getting a new laptop (Dell Inspiron 6400 (E1505)) it has Vista Basic
> and I pretty much spent all that I had to get it.  So, I am wondering if
> anyone has had any luck having Vista and Ubuntu on the same hard drive.  I
> have not researched it very much.  I was also wondering about maybe wiping
> it and installing Ubuntu and running the Vista under QEmu on Ubuntu.
>
> I only have about 2 reasons to keep Winblows around at all.  I just don't
> see the two companies writing stuff for Linux.  Also, will there be someone
> at the next meeting that knows about QEmu or Virtualbox.
>
> Thanks for any help or info,
> Carlos W.
> registered Linux user #424677
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