Hi all,
I have used my debian setup for around 6 months now on a $30 compaq I got
off ebay.
It has 256 mb ram, 800 mhz cpu (p3) and 10 gb hard disk...
I now want to dual boot windows and linux for another 6 months on my good
box which is a hp with 1 gb of ram, 320 gb hard disk and dual core 2.1
ghz.
Then I'll remove windows.
First what exactly is required to set up a dual booting system?
Is it just resizing the windows partition, adding a swap partition (in my
case 2 gb) and adding a partition for linux?
Does anything have to be done for grub?
Or am I missing something?
Do I need to run a disk defrag or something?
Ok so to resize the windows partition, what do I do?
Do I use a livecd to do this? And if so is it accessible to a totally
blind user?
(Braille or speech...)
Or can the debian installer handle this?
Once resizing is done then how do I tell linux to install to its own new
partition and make a swap and leave windows alone?
Finally I believe my windows partition is taking up the whole disk and
should I have a windows disk available?
I don't think I have one...
Also should I go with ubuntu or debian?
I was considering ubuntu since there is lots of information on it like in
the forums and it comes with a whole bunch of stuff that could be useful,
but I have used debian a lot to and it seems pretty good.
So what's the best choice?
I know this is a hard question to answer... :-)
Thanks for any help,
BTW, does ubuntu have an accessible installer?
Thanks,
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Daniel Dalton
http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/
d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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