Linux installation on Lenovo 3000 N500

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

David,

GPartED, from my experience is VERY safe. All you have to do is
simple: do a chkdsk in Vista (or as they call it "Error checking"),
then boot GPartED, and then do a simple resize.

I would recommend creating the backup DVD of your PDA using the Lenovo
tools (there should be a tool to backup the PDA to 2 CD's, one of them
is bootable) due to a simple reasons: sometimes during GRUB writing,
you cannot press the "Access IBM"/"Lenovo
Care"/whatever-they-call-it-these-days blue button when booting to go
to the PDA boot partition (although you can still go to Vista).

Thanks,
Hetz

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:36 PM, David Shwatrz <dshwatrz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Use some partitioning management software like GPartED live CD
>>(http://gparted.sourceforge.net/) to make room for a Linux
>>distribution of your choice. Make sure after you've made room,
>
> How can I make room being safe that I don't ruin anything in the windows ?
> the situation is now that there is one big partition for windows, and the PDA
> you talked about.
>
> I must add that I never used GPartED ; there were cases that I
> installed dual boot, but it was when there was already one (or more)
> free partitions for linux .
>
>
> Regards,
> DS
>



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