Re: Partitioning on i386

["teddymills" <teddymills@knet.ca>]

Well it sounds like your trying to install RH 19Gb into your drive.
The /boot kernel i believe must still reside in the first 8GB of the drive.

This is the way I install dual systems.
1. install the Windows software onto a 4GB partition (leave rest of drive
unallocated)
2. install RH or linux onto a single partition , say 4GB

3. Boot back into Windows and setup a large partition of the unallocated as
you require...
4. Setup any extra partitions for the linux as you require....

5. Say, damn, this makes a hell of a lot of sense....except that dual
booting kind of defeats
    the purpose of the computer since only one OS can be up at a time...thus
Teddy sayeth
    "Dualbooting means you should setup a second computer..."


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ramdas, Venkata (MED, TCS)" <Venkata.Ramdas@med.ge.com>
To: <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <krylon@gmx.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 12:39 PM
Subject: RE: Partitioning on i386


> hELLO,
>
> i have a hdd of 27 gb under which Windows 2000 is installed.
>
> the existing drive partitions are like
>
> c:drive  8GB
> D: drive 10 GB
> Free space 9 GB
>
> i started the red hat installation and the automatic disk partitiioning
> failed. so i chose manual partitioning.
>
> whenever i try, iam able to create either /  and swap  or /boot and swap
or
> /boot and /.
>
> any time its not allowing me to create the third one.
>
> how can i proceed to have a win2k and linux dual boot?
>
> do i need to work with partition maginc and destroy my current win2k
> installation??
>
>
> please help
>
> reg
> v.r
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