Re: Trying to figure this out! newbie

From: Sonny (skindt_at_swwnet.com)
Date: 12/16/03 

Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:55:27 GMT

"Andreas Janssen" <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:brna2l$1n1$01$1@news.t-online.com...
> Hello
>
> Sonny (<skindt@swwnet.com>) wrote:
>
> > Hey, I am almost done downloading the final iso of debian and am
> > getting really excited to try Linux. Here is my situation. I have a
> > machine with windows 2000 pro on it and i want to dual boot to linux.
> > I have found a plethera of information that helps me do this so I
> > think I am good on that point. In my exictment i converted my
> > harddrive to a dynamic drive so I can create a partition to install
> > Linux. Then I remembered.... there are no partitions with a dynamic
> > drive in windows 2000. They are VOLUMES!!!
> >
> > Now here's my question: Can I install debian onto a volume and still
> > have it work? Any help would be great!..
>
> I don't know enough about Windows 2000 to say how these volumes work,
> but the normal way would be to simply shrink the windows partition and
> create linux partitions in the free space. However, as far as I know,
> the Debian installation program cannot resize NTFS partitions.
>
> > One other quick question. Debian 3 has 7 iso images (7 cd's) do I
> > need the upgrade iso as well? or is that for upgrade purposes only.
> > Thanks again for helping yet another newbie!
>
> You don't need it. The upgrade CD is for people who already have a set
> of 3.0r1 ISOs and don't want to download everything again.
>
> best regards
> Andreas Janssen
>
> --
> Andreas Janssen
> andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com
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> Registered Linux User #267976

Thanks alot. Here is some information for you. When you have a basic
(normal) disk setup on windows 2000 (xp) and convert it to a dynamic disk
you CAN NOT resize the initial partition (volume) to make more room. The
way it works is you would install windows on say a 2 gig partition, convert
your disk to a dynamic disk and then you get to play and resize your free
space. You also cannot convert a dynamic disk back to a basic one. You will
loose all data. I have a 20 gig hard drive and all was used in the primary
partition. I converted it to a dynamic disk and now I end up with 7 Mb of
free space. I can't resize this anymore b/c partition magic wont play with
dynamic disks. So in a nutshell, unless i re-format my disk, this baby is a
dedicated windows machine.
DAMN MICROSOFT!!! I am going to wipe it just to spite ol' Bill.

Thanks for your help and I hope my errors help someone else!

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