Re: Installing Linux on Windows dual boot machine
From: imotgm (imotgm_REM_at_invalid-yahoo.com)
Date: 04/18/05
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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:42:52 GMT
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 10:32:36 +0100, MikeyD wrote:
> xModem wrote in <8c43615sh927fuhavn3mcmtchhae9u80g3@4ax.com>:
> I was fine in 3gb, but I've always been happy with just the one distro.
You keep saying this. It's obvious that you do not really use the system
to anything like it's potential, or even like an "average person" if there
is such a thing. Do you do any desktop publishing? Do you edit, composit,
or enhance digital image files? Do you d/l any mp3, avi, or mpg files? Do
you burn CDs, or DVDs, other than backups for your system? Do you do any
business activities, keep books, invoicing, cad design, correspond with
customers, gather technical data for projects, do inventory, or any of the
thousands of possible business related activities that are made easier
with the use of a computer? Do you do video editing, transfer the family
video tapes to DVD, or create any kind of presentation content, either
personal or business? Do you do any kind of programming? Do you keep any
kind of records of anything?
If you do any of the above, (and this justs scratches the surface of the
possibilities available) where do you keep the input files, working files,
and output files?
I certainly do not know what the OPs interests are, nor is it any of my
business. I do know that having more space than you need hurts nothing,
but having too little, can bring everything to a screaching halt. If the
OPs interests lead him to some of the programs I find enjoyable, 6GB is
going to feel like a straight jacket.
>>>Installing Windows you already know, so I won't go into that, just do it
>>>first. When you get to the linux install, your partitions will look
>>>something like;
>>>
>>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>>>/dev/hda1 * 1 934 7502323+ b W95 FAT32/NTFS
>>>/dev/hda2 935 5605 37519807+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
>>>/dev/hda5 935 1868 7502323+ b W95 FAT32
>>>/dev/hda6 1869 2802 7502323+ b W95 FAT32
>>>
>>>/dev/hda1 will be your XP, and either one of W95 FAT32 or NTFS depending
>>>on which you choose when you installed XP. /dev/hda5 will be your D:\
>>>drive.
>
> I think you're better off to leave hda6 as empty space when you do the
> windows partitioning. Then tell the distribution installer to install into
> the empty space, making its own partitions. Certainly with Mandrake this
> was the easiest way to do it.
If, as is suggested my the model presented here, you use the disk
partitioner CD that comes with your hard drive, you will not be given the
choice to leave the last partition empty. Mandrake will certainly give you
the choice to delete that last partition, and repartition the now empty
space any way you like.
Not knowing the OPs technical skil level, but guessing, by the guestions
asked, that it is low, I'm trying to give him a step by step crash course
on how to get from A to B without any unnecessary technical side
trips, to trip him up.
>>>When asked where to put Linux, choose /dev/hda6. As this will be your
>>>first Linux, and you will either decide that it's not for you, or you need
>>>something more serious, because you do like it, don't get fancy on the
>>>partitioning. A swap partition and a / partition will do just fine. Make
>>>the swap first, so that you can define the size, twice installed memory.
>
> Since xandros has its famous four click install, I'd have thought it can set
> up swap and / for you. (This was what mandrake did)
If the installer gives you the option, it's always better to manually set
the partition sizes, rather than rely on the guess of a programmer that's
never seen your machine, and has no knowledge of how you will use it.
-- imotgm
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