Guardian_Tom

Hi guys. I have few questions pertaining to reinstlling vista on a dell xps as I want to shrink down vista pemium for a qual boot with linux. I have a 160Gig hard drive which seems way to small to have a working dual boot as I need max 30Gig for the linux /root and about 100Gig for the home. I could possibly use the /home as a mount point for vista documents but have not tested that yet but it worked with XP. My problem is that vista is going to take up way to much space as the ms page recomended at least 40Gig for my version of vista thought the vista basic is only recomended at 20Gig. So do not need to shrink it to 4gig or anything like that but would like to see about 20 to 30gig with games. I am planing on dual booting with linux and vista will just be used for games and also some web dev stuff. Another thing I want to look into is what is a good way to reinstall as dells have back up partions which I may not need but also some small boot partitions. Thing here is I want it to work properly so keeping the small boot partion may be benificial. Xp is comfortable with about 20 gigs with software installed so somthing similar in vista may solve my hard drive space problems.

Hi guys K story so far, in January I bought a Dell XPS 1530 laptop wich came with "Windows Vista Home Premium" and made the mistake of getting the 160Gig hard drive which seems to small for a confortable dual boot for vista and linux. The best would be to get a bigger hard drive but unfortunatly I will have to wait till I can save up $170 for a 320Gig. My options right now is to try to take the vista install and mod it so that it has a small signature on the hard drive. I read the req page and it said vista need 40Gig for a install and 15 free. Now I knew that vista would have had a larger footprint but 40G is a bit to large for what I want to do. As for my usage I will be promarily using linux but will use vista to play games and possibly web dev stuff not available in linux. I need to know what my options are with vlite. 160 gig hard drive 25 to 30G for linux ?? vista ?? /home and documents would like a min of about 100G. help greatly appreciated.