Re: dual boot- Linux and Windows- Toshiba laptop...

On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 15:08 -0500, Mike Chalmers wrote:
On 2/16/08, Fred Erickson <frederickson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 19:35 -0500, Mike Chalmers wrote:
> I would like to setup a dual boot configuration on a Toshiba laptop. I
> am first going to reinstall Windows on the Toshiba using the recovery
> discs, because as of now Windows on the Toshiba is messed up. Then I
> am going to install Fedora 8.
>
> I have read several ways to do this and was wondering what the best
> method is to do this?
>
> Many Thanks,
> Preston
>


Hello Preston,

I recently setup a new Toshiba laptop to dual boot Vista & Fedora. You
didn't mention which version of Windows your laptop has now but be very
careful how you go about it if you're using Vista.

In the past, I have successfully re-partitioned several drives using
Knoppix or the "Ultimate Boot CD" on earlier versions of Windows so I
didn't anticipate any real problems this time. Vista (Ultimate version)
has a partitioning tool so I thought I'd give it a try. To make a long
story short, the tool did the re-partitioning but Windows wouldn't boot
after and the System Recovery disks wouldn't work either. I was able to
get the Recovery disk to work by repairing the drive with other tools -
so my advice is: Since your Windows is broken (normal?) anyway, create a
new, smaller partition first, leaving enough unallocated space for
Fedora. The Toshiba recovery cd will allow you to re-install Vista on
the smaller drive. Then install Fedora in the unused space.

Good luck,

Fred


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Thanks for the help. Sorry about your troubles with Vista. I am using
Windows XP. I didn't know that you could create a smaller partition
using the recovery discs? Is it possible to create a smaller partition
using the recovery discs so that I can easily install Fedora or do I
need to resize my Windows partition using a partition program?

I didn't say I used the recovery disk to _make_ a smaller partition. I
said the recovery disk with my computer could be used to restore the
system to an already created smaller partition. It may be possible, I
don't have time now to check that out. Use other tools such as parted or
qtparted to shrink the partition. Since you have XP on your machine, you
probably have a different model with different recovery disk, etc. Mine
is an A215-S4767.

I was wanting to point out that if you had Vista, there may be a problem
using Vista's build in tools. Vista wanted to keep about 200g of my 250g
drive for itself (figures approx.) I would not accept that. If you
re-install XP first, then re-size, you probably want to clean out
miscellaneous junk Toshiba includes - free software trials, etc, then
you need to de-frag the drive and make sure the swap isn't located in a
portion of the drive you want to give to Linux. Since you are going to
re-install XP anyway, make one smaller drive first, install XP, then
install Fedora. YMMV!!


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