Help Resizing Windows 7 Partition for Debian Install

Stephen cryptworks at gmail.com
Wed Dec 23 12:57:52 MST 2009


yay!

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Mark Phillips
<mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> I tried reducing the partition again from Windows, but it wouldn't let me. Even after a reboot and a disk defrag.
>
> I then booted gparted and resized the partition the way I wanted to.  Rebooting into windows forced a check disk process, but it completed without any errors and now windows runs in its tiny 40 GB space without any complaints.
>
> I performed a base install of debian and now I have a dual boot system with debian and windows. Except the realtek network card needs special drivers from realtek, so at this point I don't have a working network card on the debian side.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
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>
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> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:37:50
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