04-22-2011
...but if anything goes wrong you've just toasted BOTH systems. And that's assuming he has enough free space at all, in the right places to be able to resize like that, and that the bootloader's willing to cooperate. And if he ever installs or repairs Windows again it'll destroy his bootloader and cut off access to the Linux part. I never recommend dual boot to new users.
Use a throwaway machine of some sort. P4 or newer, 512M of RAM or better, ought to do.
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update-bootloader
UPDATE-BOOTLOADER(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation UPDATE-BOOTLOADER(1)
NAME
update-bootloader - update/change bootloader configuration using
Bootloader::Tools perl module
SYNOPSIS
update-bootloader [operation] [options]
operation is one of --add, --remove or --refresh.
valid options are --help, --man, --image <file>, --initrd <file>, --xen-kernel <file>, --xen, --default, --previous, --name <string>,
--force, --force-default.
DESCRIPTION
update-bootloader will let you modify your bootloader configuration using Bootloader::Tools perl module.
OPERATIONS
--add add an new image section. Needs a call to --refresh to take effect.
--remove
remove the specified image section. Needs a call to --refresh to take effect.
--refresh
activate the new config e.g. write boot loader to disk
PARAMETER
--help Print a brief help message and exits.
--man Prints the manual page and exits.
--image file
specify path to kernel image
--initrd file
specify path to initrd file
--xen specify that you what to add a xen and not a regular image section
--xen-kernel file
specify that you what to add a xen section with a specific image. Implies --xen option.
--default
let the new section to be added be the default section if appropriate. Only allowed together with --add operation
--previous
set some usuable defaults for image, initrd and name when
--name string
specify the name of the section to be added/removed
--force dont complain, just do the right thing
--force-default
force the new section to be added to be the default section. Only allowed together with --add operation
perl v5.12.1 2010-04-22 UPDATE-BOOTLOADER(1)