Re: Dual boot on system with hidden recovery partition
- From: ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:27:06 -0600
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:50:31 +0000, DC wrote:
ray wrote:
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:30:52 +0000, DC wrote:
I have an installation question. Hopefully someone can help me...
I wish to dual boot linux with Windows XP on a Dell laptop.
The laptop has a hidden recovery partition in lieu of recovery CDs.
If I install linux to the extended partition, will writing GRUB
to the MBR preclude me form doing a recovery of Windows XP at a later date?
The laptop does not have a floppy drive. What are my options?
Thank you.
'hidden' from whom? I believe that the Linux partitioning tools will find
it and act accordingly. Should be no problem. Why not boot the Gparted
Live CD and see?
I have Partition Magic installed. I can see it just fine. Companies
like HP/Compaq and Dell (this is a Dell Latitude laptop) don't supply
recovery CDs with their laptops anymore -- they put a recovery partition
containing the os and software on a hidden partition on the HDD
instead). What I want to know is the correct procedure to follow to
make this a dual boot system while ensuring that my ability to later
recover the Windows XP os from this partition will be unaffected.
I understand what they do. My recommendation: forget partition magic. You
don't need it. Correct procedure:
1) defrag your MS partition(s)
2) check BIOS to boot from CD before hard drive
3) insert Linux install CD and boot
4) the Linux install CD will start a partitioning tool which you can use
to resize and repartition.
5) continue with the install following the instructions
6) the te Linux install offers to set up grub and all your other OSs, let
it do so.
When you are finished, the Linux install will have set up the dual boot
for you.
BTW you should have a minimum of two partitions for Linux - one swap
partition about twice RAM and another partition - about 10gb or more.
.
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