[KLUG Members] New laptop on the way...advice

[Richard Harding]

What I tried to do before was to partition with Partition Magic first. I 
had a 50mb /boot at the beginning of the drive then windows, swap, and 
finally one big / for the deb install.

I installed windows and all was well. I then installed debian and all 
was well, except there was no windows entry so I tried to add it 
manually and boot to it it would just hang.

Does anyone have a good step by step how-to on getting a windows 
partition back into debian after a deb install?

Thanks

Rick

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

>>>The SuSE installer automatically shrank the NTFS partition as part
>>>of the stock GUI installer, no special work needed.  I've never
>>>seen another installer do that before (but I've never seen the new
>>>Debian installer either, so YMMV).   :-)
>>
>>As of a few months ago, Debian doesn't do that... sounds like a neat
>>feature.
> 
> 
> RedHat doesn't either.  But it is pretty easy if you have another machine to
> make a book diskette/CD from;  even Brian pulled it off.
> 
> http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html
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