Re: linux installation

On Mar 31, 7:31 am, "kature" <katurela...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Regards!
I have following situation, and would appreciate if someone could help:
2 disks
- disk No.1 C: and D: partition
- disk No.2 G: and H: partition
On C: partition WinXP is installed, and I am planning to install Ubuntu 7.10
(version if I am correct) on G: partition (which is on other hard disk)
I just want to know, if installation completes successfully, will I see dual
boot DOS prompt (WinXP and Ubuntu), after restart.

All the best!


Linux requires more than one partition, at least two normally, but
almost never just one. We use one small partition for swap, (MS
users call it "virtual memory", we call it swap). We could force it
to not create the swap partition, but there's really no need to do
that.
You can use the space that is occupied by "disk No.2 G", for the
Ubuntu install, (the first partition on the slave drive), or you can
delete and use "disk No.2 H", (the second partition on slave),
that's fine too, as long as it leaves enough space, but the thing to
do would be to let the partitioning tool remove one or more
partitions, and create it's own native partitions with the resulting
"free space".
The partition manager will either use existing "free space" or, (at
your request), delete one or more partitions in order to create
enough free space to do the install.

The best thing to do in preparation for a Linux install is to just
leave un-partitioned "free space", or just a blank, un-partitioned
drive. But if there are partitions on it, there is no problem with
deleting or removing them in preparation for creating new ones.
.

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