From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "teddymills" Subject: Re: Partitioning on i386 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:01:35 -0400 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <002601c35d05$910c06d0$76cebfd8@ncct.on.ca> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Ramdas, Venkata (MED, TCS)" , linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Cc: krylon@gmx.net 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)" To: Cc: 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 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >