New Laptop

[Jerry Feldman]

Vista is not very good, but it does have its own resizing software.
There are a couple of ways you could do things. One is to install
Virtualbox (or another virtualization method) and install fedora as a
guest OS, or you could install fedora native and install Vista or
Windows XP as a guest OS.

On 10/18/2009 05:46 PM, jbk wrote:
> I just bought my first new laptop my previous was used and I installed =

> my own copy of windows 2000 and dual booted with Fedora. The new one is=
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> a Lenovo t400 base model with DVD rw and bluetooth. It doesn't have=20
> video switching. It does have Lenovo's flavor of Vista business=20
> installed. I am now in the process of shrinking the windows partition s=
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> I can install Fedora. I found it very frustrating trying to prepare the=
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> windows partition so that it would be defragged and compact. When I=20
> removed software the actual disk usage went up. When I made the system =

> restore disks the disk usage went up. I suspect this is mostly due to=20
> Lenovo's default setup.
> I find the user management the most difficult due to the fact that the =

> administrator user is now the first user and there are still=20
> administrative functions that are limited to the user/administrator.
> Is there a way to turn the full user management facilities back on? Thi=
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> may be moot in a few hours but I would like to know if others have deal=
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> with this successfully.
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