F11 live CD install Q re dual boot partitioning [solved]

[Quinney, Matthew]

 Thank you, that is what I thought it probably was - I just wanted some
confirmation before doing something I couldn't undo.....

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Subject: Re: F11 live CD install Q re dual boot partitioning

On 10/07/2009 11:25 AM, Quinney, Matthew wrote:
> When installing F11 from the Live CD, during the partitioning for dual

> boot, there is a box labeled "volume to shrink" with a drop down menu 
> for the volume and a size box labeled "shrink target(in MB)".  Is this

> the size by which to shrink the original volume or is it the size to 
> which the volume will be shrunk.  It is kind of an important 
> distinction if you want to preserve what you originally had, but I 
> have not been able to figure that out from an afternoon of looking 
> through docs and past list questions (perhaps I'm not searching using 
> the right phrases?).
>
> Thanks,  Matt
>
>    
Hi Matt,

I just did an 'install to hard drive' from F11-Live to an Acer Netbook
with Vista on the entire disk.  I pondered over the same question for
awhile...
Since the netbook has a recovery partition, so I went ahead and made an
educated guess.  If I remember right, the 'volume to shrink' indicates
the size of the original Vista partition and the 'shrink target' box has
the current Vista usage.  So I took the 'volume to shrink' size minus
the size of new F11 partition and enter that number in the 'shrink
target' field.

Everything worked out OK and a new F11 was installed without a hitch...

--
Bob



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