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

[Nat Gross]

On 5/7/07, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
> Nat Gross writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> Are you really sure you can do that?
>
> The Vista CD you have included with your shiny machine is, most likely, a
> castrated "rescue CD" that merely copies over the original Vista install
> image off a hidden, extra partition.  I'd be surprised if it even gave you
> an option of choosing your partition layout.  More than likely it just wipes
> everything clean and sets up an entire disk-spanning partition, again.
>
This is a Vista DVD and it seems like the complete Vista is on it.

Currently I am trying the rescuecd but, although it boots ok, it won't
startx, so I cant do gparted - yet.

Make me wonder if Fedora might also have gui problems on this.

nat