From: Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 08:31:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110723123104.GA3116@ca.inter.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E2A297D.4070709@gmail.com>
You've had some very good advice from Mike + Mick,
but you can have a bit more re-assurance from me.
You shouldn't have a warranty problem if you keep Windows 7 installed.
For that, you can easily install Gentoo alongside it.
I did that with my Asus netbook, which came with XP :
I got XP to tell me how much disk space it was using,
then used Systemrescue to shrink the partition to about twice that much
-- to be safe & allow for some personal files or programs,
if I ever used Windows for anything -- ,
then installed Gentoo on the remainder (most) of the disk.
I used Lilo to dual-boot & XP still works.
There was an extra Windows partition which I wiped out,
but that didn't affect the ordinary booting of XP.
Linux is far better than Losedows & Gentoo the best distro
provided you're prepared to put in a bit of time maintaining it.
HTH
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-23 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-23 1:53 [gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused CJoeB
2011-07-23 2:27 ` William Kenworthy
2011-07-23 3:07 ` Mark Knecht
2011-07-23 13:28 ` CJoeB
2011-07-23 15:11 ` Mick
2011-07-23 20:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-07-23 22:24 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2011-07-23 22:58 ` CJoeB
2011-07-23 6:25 ` Mike Edenfield
2011-07-23 11:47 ` Mick
2011-07-23 14:55 ` Mike Edenfield
2011-07-23 16:49 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-07-23 17:35 ` Mick
2011-07-23 22:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-07-23 18:46 ` Mike Edenfield
2011-07-24 16:14 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-07-23 12:31 ` Philip Webb [this message]
2011-07-23 15:06 ` Allan Gottlieb
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