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dual boot - another shot
DJ:
I want to try one more time to get windows 2000Pro and mandrake 9.0 both on my main machine, I have found tons of stuff on dual booting on the net but nothing really shows/tells me what I need to know.
I want to have 10G for linux, and 20G for windows (plus or minus)
first: should I bother trying to partition my HD or let setup do it automatically (linux),some things I have found say partition yourself and some say let Linux do it
second: I would Install windows first correct?
third: how do I want to partition my hd properly
. . .
[/boot][/mnt/windows][/][swap][/home]
. . .
would that be correct, or is something misplaced or missing? I am only asking because I had problems installing before and believe it to be because the boot loader was improperly installed or in the wrong place.
If this is wrong, please help me out, TIA
Dj
Edit: Is it possible to dual boot with Windows 2000 under NTFS?
[ December 01, 2002: Message edited by: Engineer ]
foobar:
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I want to try one more time to get windows 2000Pro and mandrake 9.0 both on my main machine, I have found tons of stuff on dual booting on the net but nothing really shows/tells me what I need to know.
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You have come to the right place ;)
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I want to have 10G for linux, and 20G for windows (plus or minus)
first: should I bother trying to partition my HD or let setup do it automatically (linux),some things I have found say partition yourself and some say let Linux do it
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Do it yourself. With mandrake, my experience is that it's bloody easy to simply make them partitions and mount them wherever you want them.
Even the first time I used that repartitioning tool, it was a piece of pie
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second: I would Install windows first correct?
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Indeed, windows does not give a penny about ANY other OS (even if you would dual boot two versions of windows ... but what moron would have that? :D )
and puts merely the entry 'windows' into your MBR. (Or somewhere else? Correct me if I'm wrong, folks ...)
After you installed windows, install linux, use lilo or grub whatever and overwrite the sucker, and you have dual boot.
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third: how do I want to partition my hd properly
[/boot][/mnt/windows][/][swap][/home]
. . .
would that be correct, or is something misplaced or missing? I am only asking because I had problems installing before and believe it to be because the boot loader was improperly installed or in the wrong place.
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I have no idea, sorry. I always did what I liked best and it always worked fine for me ... if my inproper partitioning causes my linux to run slower, wtf, it can't go slower than this ... sigh :(
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If this is wrong, please help me out, TIA
Dj
Edit: Is it possible to dual boot with Windows 2000 under NTFS?
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Maybe it's even mandatory, because I once tried to dual boot a machine with mandrake and win2000, and
win2000's setup simply did not want to install to the fat32 partition I made for it. Bitch.
It would work on NTFS, on the other hand ...
DJ:
I know this is a dumb question but should I attempt to partition my HD now (while installing windows) or just let Mandrake do it?
and will it automatically put the boot information into a /boot dir which is in the first 1024k block which it needs to be in or is that something I have to specificy?
Dj
p.s. thanks for your help
TheQuirk:
err. . .
use fdisk to make three partions. . .
At the beginning, a 50mb one. Then a 20gb one, then a 9.950gb one. Make them all DOS. Then use the win2k installed to install to remove the 20gb partion, then install linux and tell it to delete the other two and replace the 50mb one with /boot and the other one to be /, /swap, etc.
KernelPanic:
quote:Originally posted by TheQuirk:
err. . .
use fdisk to make three partions. . .
At the beginning, a 50mb one. Then a 20gb one, then a 9.950gb one. Make them all DOS. Then use the win2k installed to install to remove the 20gb partion, then install linux and tell it to delete the other two and replace the 50mb one with /boot and the other one to be /, /swap, etc.
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Why tell linux to delete the partitions, just get it to format them as ext2/ext3/reiser/xfs/'whatever wierd and wonderful filesystem tickles your fancy'.
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