Need vista small prep for dual boot vist/linux

[Guardian_Tom]

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.

[Herc130]

I am no expert on the matter, but my windows vista home premium sp1 takes up 10GB or so full install. If I were to give it its very own partition, I'd probably give it 15GB to 20GB, but I usually just put it in the same partition as everything else.

After a fairly conservative V-lite, my Vista home premium sp1 now takes up 4.17GBs. Where ever you got that 40GB figure from, I don't know...possibly what they said was you could get it down to around 4GB and need at least 15gb free within its partition for running a defragger?

Edited June 8, 2008 by Herc130

[ijwcomp]

vLite would make it smaller at the price of getting rid of some components, but sometimes can make your computer faster. Look at http://www.vlite.net/ for details of it.

Vista is huge compared to XP and so, I couldn't believe how much HDD it took up when I installed it. But I set my partition for Vista to be about 50GB and it works fine with about 20GB to spare for my stuff. (which to me is not a lot (got a external hdd), but I do video editing of random stuff so to you it might be enough)

If you are planning to get a 320GB hdd, I wouldn't suggest installing all these stuff, just what you need to get through until you get the bigger hdd.