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

[pgaltieri at cox.net]

---- Nat Gross <nat101l at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 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?
> 
> Thank you.
> nat
> 
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Here's the steps:

1) Install Partition Magic 8.0 (hoping it works on Vista)

2) resize your Windows partition

3) Using PM create a Linux partition on the unallocated part of the drive that remains after step 2

4) Boot the Fedora disk and tell it to remove all Linux partitions on the drive and create a default layout.

This worked for me on a Dell M65 laptop running XP.

Paolo