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creating a third Linux partition
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| Tsun Szu 2005-03-19, 5:45 pm |
| My PC is presently running a dual boot system. It has 2 partitions c:
(primary) and d: (secondary - logical drive....both using FAT32. On
starting my PC I have 2 choices to select - either Win98 or WinXP. The
primary partition is installed with Win98 and the secondary partition is
installed with WinXP professional. I intend to do a third partition for
Linux to have a triple boot.
The disk space allocated currently is c: 30gigs and d: 10gigs. I am going to
allocate 10gigs in c: for a linux partition using Partition Magic and then
install Red Hat 9.0. What will the new linux partition be labelled as after
doing this linux partition? Is
it called d: ? so that the original d: becomes e: ? And then can I just
start the installation into this new linux partition using my CD rom?
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| Rincewind 2005-03-19, 5:45 pm |
| On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 22:56:16 +0800, Tsun Szu mumbled something like this:
> My PC is presently running a dual boot system. It has 2 partitions c:
> (primary) and d: (secondary - logical drive....both using FAT32. On
> starting my PC I have 2 choices to select - either Win98 or WinXP. The
> primary partition is installed with Win98 and the secondary partition is
> installed with WinXP professional. I intend to do a third partition for
> Linux to have a triple boot.
>
> The disk space allocated currently is c: 30gigs and d: 10gigs. I am going
> to allocate 10gigs in c: for a linux partition using Partition Magic and
> then install Red Hat 9.0. What will the new linux partition be labelled as
> after doing this linux partition? Is
> it called d: ? so that the original d: becomes e: ? And then can I just
> start the installation into this new linux partition using my CD rom?
Windows will not see the linux partition(s) and so your drive letters will
not change within windows. Also, since D: is a logical drive and you have
taken your space from a primary partition, the partition info in
C:\boot.ini should still be correct.
When you install RH, you will need to further partition the space you
created with Partition Magic. You will need to have, as a bare minimum, 1
partition for the main system and a swap partition for virtual memory. You
should probably read about partitioning requirements for linux before you
do this.
For booting, the best way is to let the RH install programme put grub in
the bootsector. This will give you a menu to choose either Red Hat Linux
or Windows as the system to boot. If you select Windows, you will then see
the Windows boot menu that you currently see, offering Win98 and XP.
Regards
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Rinso
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| General Schvantzkoph 2005-03-20, 5:45 pm |
| On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 16:58:12 +0000, Rincewind wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 22:56:16 +0800, Tsun Szu mumbled something like this:
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> Windows will not see the linux partition(s) and so your drive letters will
> not change within windows. Also, since D: is a logical drive and you have
> taken your space from a primary partition, the partition info in
> C:\boot.ini should still be correct.
>
> When you install RH, you will need to further partition the space you
> created with Partition Magic. You will need to have, as a bare minimum, 1
> partition for the main system and a swap partition for virtual memory. You
> should probably read about partitioning requirements for linux before you
> do this.
>
> For booting, the best way is to let the RH install programme put grub in
> the bootsector. This will give you a menu to choose either Red Hat Linux
> or Windows as the system to boot. If you select Windows, you will then see
> the Windows boot menu that you currently see, offering Win98 and XP.
>
> Regards
10G is a little small, if I were you I'd buy another drive and use that
for Linux. You should use at least three partitions for Linux, /, /home
and swap. You never want to put your user data and programs on the same
partition as the OS because you want to leave yourself the option of
wiping the / partition when you do a future upgrade, that's why /home
should be separate.
One more thing, RH9 is very old, use Fedora Core 3 or Mandrake 10.1
instead.
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