New Dell Inspiron 9400: From Vista to Fedora/Vista.

[John Aldrich]

Quoting Nat Gross <nat101l at gmail.com>:

> I just received a new Inspiron 9400 (32 bit dual core chip) with one
> 100gig (truly 90+gig) drive that is pre installed with Vista on the
> entire drive, on >1 partitions.
> I would like to have Fedora on it in a dual boot config.
> If I have to, I'll reinstall Vista (and free Win software) from scratch.
>
> The question is which is the best way of accomplishing this:
> 1. Boot the Fedora DVD, and have it shrink the Windoz partition, install
> Fedora.
> 2. Get a 3rd party partition manager to reduce the partition, then
> install Fedora.
> 3. Boot Fedora DVD, wipe out partition, install Fedora and afterwards Vista.
> 4. Wipe out partition, install Vista and afterwards Fedora.
>
> Also key question. Would Fedora 7 differ then FC6 in this scenario?
>
Nat:
I would at least TRY GNU Parted before wiping and reinstalling, as it's a
non-destructive repartitioning util, similar to Partition Magic. I know it
works on NTFS partitions, as I used it on an XP machine.