[oi-dev] Fwd: [developer] Please review 4989 - BIS

[Josef 'Jeff' Sipek]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 08:11:35AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore via illumos-developer wrote:
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> GParted was introduced to facilitate having users try out OpenSolaris on
> their laptops running Windows.

FWIW, Windows 7 (and I suspect Vista and 8) have a way to resize NTFS
partitions.  Therefore, it is possible to boot your pre-installed Windows,
resize the NTFS partition, boot OI/whatever installer and create a new
partition in the empty space.

Jeff.

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