Laptop installation

[Nils Kassube]

Avraham Hanadari wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 11:56 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> The article that Frans mentioned was quite explicit. It even
> mentioned the extra software I recalled.

Thanks to Frans for the link. I'll probably need it when we'll install 
Jaunty on the Vista machine.

> I went to the Vista Computer Management / Disk Management.
> Disk properties are: Capacity 111 GB; Used 73.5 GB; Free 38.2 GB
> Disk shrink revealed 114472 mb on HD, but 0 mb available for
> shrinkage. I guess the swap file is there. At any rate, Im stopped.
>
> Any ideas? I could probably move some stuff elsewhere to free up
> space, but would it make any difference if an elastic (and invisible)
> swap file is there?

I don't know about Vista but for XP there is an option to use no swap 
file at all. If that option exists for Vista as well, you can select it 
at least for the time of shrinking the partition.

Another option might be the use of JkDefrag which was mentioned here:

<https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2009-April/180090.html>
<https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2009-April/180095.html>


Nils