Need Help partitioning a disk for dual boot

[Mark Phillips]

I agree, but Debian does not. At least I could not find a way to shrink my 
Windows partition using the Debain installer.

Mark

On Tuesday 19 September 2006 12:19 pm, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> Most modern Linux distributions should have a GUI version of 'parted' 
> integrated into the installation process.  In particular, SUSE does a very 
> good job of that.  During the SUSE installation, you are given the 
> opportunity to resize your Windows partition to whatever you want and then 
> create the Linux partitions.  It's all very slick.
> 
> On Tuesday 19 September 2006 10:34, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > I have a new laptop that currently has Windows XP SP2. I want to create a
> > new partition on the drive for Debian.
> >
> > My system: 30GB hard drive. Primary partition is c: with Windows XP, about
> > 28 GB in size (the whole drive). I want to create a 15GB partition for
> > Debian.
> >
> > I have used Partition Magic 7.1 in the past to do this, but it seems that
> > XP won't let it re-partition the disk. I keep getting an error 27 - can't
> > lock drive at the first step. I googled around for a work around and did
> > not find a good solution.
> >
> > Symantek now owns PartitionMagic, has a new version, and doesn't support
> > the older version. After 30 minutes on the phone and referrals to 4 phone
> > numbers, I finally ended up at a number that wanted to charge my credit
> > card $10 in order to connect me to someone to ask them "What is the price
> > of the upgrade from Partition Magic 7.1 to 8.0?"!
> >
> > So, it seems that XP comes with DiskPart, a command line utility to
> > partition disks. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with it and
> > could provide some guidance on how to use it. I start to get worried when
> > it asks for offset values.
> >
> > Alternatively, what other options do you suggest for partitioning my 
drive?
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