the wonders of ntfsresize and fdisk

[jhu]

wow! these things actually work. so i had to replace my wife's laptop's hard drive and used the manufacturer provided recovery discs to reinstall vista. after decrapifying and installing useful software, i was wondering how to install covertly install linux on the thing. and sure enough there's ntfsresize and fdisk there to non-destructively shrink the vista partition. hehe, now she has linux on her computer...

 

[Brainonska511]

It was nice using gparted within the Ubuntu installer to put Ubuntu on my laptop. Ubuntu Intrepid is my primary OS with XP being secondary (only for the few instances I need Office and when I want to edit photos with Lightroom; maybe a few games).

What distro did you install and why a "covert" install? I was probably going to try OpenSuse 11.1 over break on my laptop. Ubuntu isn't so good when it comes to batterylife (compared with XP) .

 

[jhu]

i installed debian. also, i installed it without her knowledge, but then there's that pesky os selection screen...