On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 02:17:50PM +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > For my last laptop I ended up > going to the nearest 'media-store' and getting a preinstalled vista > laptop, trash vista and install linux. It would be nice to get > os-less machines easily though. My experience is that occasionally there are problems getting hardware to work under Linux. Painful and depressing tho it be, it can be helpful to boot under Vista/Win7 to verify that the hardware works. The main issue keeping a Win partition alive while installing linux for me is being able to shrink it. MS has made this a royal pain (royal, perhaps because kings get carbuncles on their butts from sitting at their thrones?) I found there's a free utility called Partition Wizard, Linux based, that can correctly shrink a Win OS partition without breaking it. Cheers, -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
