Because of other commitments I need to keep 30gigs wasted on Micro$. I have a 60 gig Maxtor hard drive with a 10 gig partition for the Win OS and 20 gig for win programs, this leaves room for 30 gigs of Linux. I have tried with several distributions of Linux and all recognize the 10 gig boot partition but roll the remaining into a single partition. How do I set up a dual boot and not affect the part reserved for windows. Yes I would prefer to just do a clean install of Linux but that is not possible in this case as even reformatting and reinstalling the windows part is not practical.
On Sunday 17 September 2006 14:53, Norm wrote:
Because of other commitments I need to keep 30gigs wasted on Micro$. I have a 60 gig Maxtor hard drive with a 10 gig partition for the Win OS and 20 gig for win programs, this leaves room for 30 gigs of Linux. I have tried with several distributions of Linux and all recognize the 10 gig boot partition but roll the remaining into a single partition. How do I set up a dual boot and not affect the part reserved for windows. Yes I would prefer to just do a clean install of Linux but that is not possible in this case as even reformatting and reinstalling the windows part is not practical.
In your settings that you are selecting to do your install you are not picking the correct one during the HDD partition selection. sorry I have not done an install in about 2 months and do not remember what it says.
On Sunday 17 September 2006 15:04, linuxmaillists@charter.net wrote:
On Sunday 17 September 2006 14:53, Norm wrote:
Because of other commitments I need to keep 30gigs wasted on Micro$. I have a 60 gig Maxtor hard drive with a 10 gig partition for the Win OS and 20 gig for win programs, this leaves room for 30 gigs of Linux. I have tried with several distributions of Linux and all recognize the 10 gig boot partition but roll the remaining into a single partition. How do I set up a dual boot and not affect the part reserved for windows. Yes I would prefer to just do a clean install of Linux but that is not possible in this case as even reformatting and reinstalling the windows part is not practical.
In your settings that you are selecting to do your install you are not picking the correct one during the HDD partition selection. sorry I have not done an install in about 2 months and do not remember what it says.
There is an install guide with pictures that shows the details of how to do this.
On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:09:23 -0400 linuxmaillists@charter.net wrote:
On Sunday 17 September 2006 15:04, linuxmaillists@charter.net wrote:
On Sunday 17 September 2006 14:53, Norm wrote:
Because of other commitments I need to keep 30gigs wasted on Micro$. I have a 60 gig Maxtor hard drive with a 10 gig partition for the Win OS and 20 gig for win programs, this leaves room for 30 gigs of Linux. I have tried with several distributions of Linux and all recognize the 10 gig boot partition but roll the remaining into a single partition. How do I set up a dual boot and not affect the part reserved for windows. Yes I would prefer to just do a clean install of Linux but that is not possible in this case as even reformatting and reinstalling the windows part is not practical.
In your settings that you are selecting to do your install you are not picking the correct one during the HDD partition selection. sorry I have not done an install in about 2 months and do not remember what it says.
There is an install guide with pictures that shows the details of how to do this.
I expected it to be this simple but it is not. During the install I am presented with the correct representation of my physical hard drives, when I go to the custom partitioning part of the set up. The physical device that contains the current Microsoft boot partition shows correctly as 10 gig. the second partition presents itself as 47 gig which is the problem as the correct partitioning of this hard drive should show as 10gig, 20gig and the remaining approximately as 30 gig (probably actually 27gig).
Norm wrote:
I expected it to be this simple but it is not. During the install I am presented with the correct representation of my physical hard drives, when I go to the custom partitioning part of the set up. The physical device that contains the current Microsoft boot partition shows correctly as 10 gig. the second partition presents itself as 47 gig which is the problem as the correct partitioning of this hard drive should show as 10gig, 20gig and the remaining approximately as 30 gig (probably actually 27gig).
You probably have an extended partition that is 47 G with a 20 G logical partition inside of it. So you have to ether create logical partitions inside of it for Linux, or shrink the extended partition.
Mikkel
After I looked at things closer I realised that I had come up against a problem I inherited with the drive. The partitions had been converted to dynamic disks and the only option is a full reinstall which for other reasons is not an acceptable solution. Thanks everyone for the suggestions unfortunately I have been Microsofted in this case. Norm
On 9/17/06, Norm norm@workingtools.ca wrote:
After I looked at things closer I realised that I had come up against a problem I inherited with the drive. The partitions had been converted to dynamic disks and the only option is a full reinstall which for other reasons is not an acceptable solution. Thanks everyone for the suggestions unfortunately I have been Microsofted in this case. Norm
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Hi Norm!
XP and Linux - alaways a lot of hassle!
The issue you mention appears to be correctable (see "convert back to regular partitions" in link below:
# Disk Management Snap-in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309044/
But that is only one of the issues. Bootloader is probably the main issue to deal with. When you install a Linux it most often replaces your Master Boot Record (MBR)(the first sector (512 bytes) of the disk). Fedora will do so with GRUB stage one. If you are otherwise set up to do so you can chainload XP, but often security applications and other machine management software may see fit to "fix" the MBR back to an XP MBR. Probably a good solution is to chain load Linux through the XP boot loader.
Another option is to use an external drive and use BIOS to prefer it when inserted. Or a separate internal drive. Currently I have Solaris on a separate drive (Solaris is not particularly GRUB friendly and also has a tendency to want it's own MBR - like XP). The separate drive is a SCSI drive and so BIOS is set to prefer the IDE drive which contains Dapper, Suse(w/Xen!), FC5, and the GRUB boot screen also contains one item (with the recovery and memtest and floppy boot options there are currently 10 items!) which selects Solaris on the separate disk. And it all works (well, boot from flash is still a problem but...).
Good Booting!
Tod
Tod Merley wrote:
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But that is only one of the issues. Bootloader is probably the main issue to deal with. When you install a Linux it most often replaces your Master Boot Record (MBR)(the first sector (512 bytes) of the disk). Fedora will do so with GRUB stage one. If you are otherwise set up to do so you can chainload XP, but often security applications and other machine management software may see fit to "fix" the MBR back to an XP MBR. Probably a good solution is to chain load Linux through the XP boot loader.
[snip]
That's the way I do it on my machine. The Windows XP MBR and Boot Manager chainload GRUB from a BR on my Linux Boot partition. The Win XP boot manager actually works pretty well, and is easy to configure. I second this recommendation.
Mike
Paz 17 Eyl 2006 21:53 tarihinde, Norm şunları yazmıştı:
Because of other commitments I need to keep 30gigs wasted on Micro$. I have a 60 gig Maxtor hard drive with a 10 gig partition for the Win OS and 20 gig for win programs, this leaves room for 30 gigs of Linux. I have tried with several distributions of Linux and all recognize the 10 gig boot partition but roll the remaining into a single partition. How do I set up a dual boot and not affect the part reserved for windows. Yes I would prefer to just do a clean install of Linux but that is not possible in this case as even reformatting and reinstalling the windows part is not practical.
It is simple. When the installer asks for partitioning select the disk space which is 30 gb. Fedora Core installer asks you where to install. You can select the empty space without modifying the others You can see the partition screenshot below.
http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=596&slide=2
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