Hi Tongqing,
I have recently installed SuSe Linux 11.2 on a Dell Latitude E6510 and I
can confirm that the system comes with Windows 7 pre-installed on 4
primary partitions:
- Dell Utility
- Windows Recovery
- Windows
- Reader (for Latitude ON)
I was not sure if Linux cares to have the bootloader (grub in my case)
on an extended partition. Maybe, someone else can give some input. I
decided to go the safe route and so I moved/resized the Windows
partitions with gparted in order to have space and a primary partition
available for /. It was straight forward and worked without problems. I
defined all operations in the gparted queue and everything was done in
one run. Of course, you have to copy partitions before you can delete
them. So, I did several resize-copy-delete-opertations in a row. At the
end, Windows was still able to boot/run. I do not remember but it might
have complained about the hard disk integrity after the first boot and
it forced a system check. After that, there were no troubles.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
If you need further details I can give you my fstab or other information
off list.
Cheers,
christian
Zhou, Tongqing (NIH/VRC) [E] wrote:
> Dear All,
>
>
>
> I am trying to set up a dual boot system on a new Dell laptop factory
> installed with 64-bit Windows 7 professional.
>
>
>
> Model: Dell Latitude E6410
>
> OS: Windows 7 Professional
>
> MEM: 8G
>
> CPU: Corei7
>
> HD: 500GB
>
>
>
> I first shrank the HD with Win7 to give ~250GB space to the new OS, I
> then installed from DVD, so far, I tested Red Hat 5 workstation, Fedora
> 13, Ubantu 10, all of them complained that I don’t have enough space to
> put partition…..Further googling found out that DELL had put some hidden
> partitions (Dell Utility, Recovery, and a partition named READER) on the
> HD and there is a limit to 4 primary partitions.
>
>
>
> Did anyone have any success?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
>
>
> Tongqing
>
>
>
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