From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1IBZqi-0005wU-Jo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:31:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6JHUF92025206; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:30:15 GMT Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6JHMfv8015219 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:22:41 GMT Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82A24A242 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:22:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:22:40 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: pog/mR30oPX4rilhM78n4kr2pCWjCpGbb2AARRiLMY1D 1184865760 Received: from [192.168.31.10] (cpe-76-185-203-114.tx.res.rr.com [76.185.203.114]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25E4C1DFD for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:22:40 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Foundation Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:22:38 -0500 Message-Id: <1184865758.18550.28.camel@blackwidow.nbk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 70115df3-2832-4abb-9f5b-eb6cabfa4db9 X-Archives-Hash: bc5622b3135a5b46d6fc32af90e883d7 Last year I bought a Dell Inspiron that did not come with any software cd. The drive, came with XP pre-installed as well as a "recovery" partition that you could use to restore the XP partition to factory. Of course it runs Gentoo. What I did was: 1. Boot with a live cd (or better yet RIPLinux on a USB stick). 2. Back up MBR, parition table, and partitions to DVD, network or external drive. 3. Use ntfsresize to shrink the XP partition, make sure it still boots. 4. Use the space left over from ntfsresize to create partition(s)/install Gentoo. 5. Install GRUB on the MBR. Worked for me. YMMV. I could have also removed the "utility" partition to get more space, since I do have a backup. But I left it on there as I don't really need the space. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list