Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:45:57 +0200 fedora <fedora at ayni.com> wrote:

> 
> On 2014-06-23 07:10, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > According to FedEx, my new machine is on a truck speeding to my
> > local distribution center for delivery tomorrow. So hopefully it will
> > be here tomorrow. I had two questions:
> >
> > 1) It comes with Windoze 7 (with an upgrade option/disc for W8). Not
> > sure if I want to wipe it off (ideally, I would have liked to have not
> > paid for it) but I was wondering if I wanted to do a dual boot, is
> > there a set of instructions somewhere that I could follow? I have had no
> > problems with earlier windoze xp unProfessional dual installs, but not
> > with W7 or W8 (have not even seen a machine with this one). I do wonder
> > about keeping an OS I am likely to only use when I am talking to some
> > technical support for some service. Somehow the ones that require
> > contacting technical support always want you to use IE. I bluff my way
> > through on these ones.
> >
> > 2) This laptop has touchscreen abilities. While I could in general care
> > less about this feature, again I did not have an option to get rid of
> > it. So, I wonder if it is possible to use the touchscreen features with
> > Fedora 20?
> >
> > Am I better off trying CentOS on this machine because of the two
> > questions above? I would however like to stick to Fedora.
> >
> > Many shanks,
> > Ranjan
> >
> >
> >
> Hi Ranjan
> regarding question 1) I got a PC (Desktop) with fully installed Windoze 
> 7 as well. I then told the Fedora Installer to shrink the Windoze 
> partition. Then I installed Fedora (without dual boot). And on Linux I 
> installed VirtualBox and I made Windoze 7 to operate in VirtualBox.
> This way, I don't need to reboot, but can start Windoze like a Fedora 
> application.
> 

Thank you! This is a great idea! Are there detailed instructions on how
to do this, telling the obscure Fedora installer to shrink the Windoze
partition? Can the Windoze partition stay updated?

I would also like to have 2) answered.

Thanks,
Ranjan

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