Re: Dual Booting Red Hat Linux 9

["David Barkman" <sysadmin carbonis com>]

I would get Partition Magic to do the partitioning.  Then start by
defragging your drive in Windows to put everything at the front of the disk.
Then partition the drive using Partition Magic.  You could split the drive
in half, but RH 9 probably wont need more than 10 or 20 gigs unless your
running a production server with a large database.
Once you're done with Partition Magic, you'll be left with unpartitioned
space.  This space will show up when installing RH 9, and will be used to
create your Linux mounts, and my two cents on mounts is unless you know
exactly how big to make them, just let the system autopartition.
For managing the two OS's use Boot Magic, which I believe comes with
Partition Magic.

Good Luck!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jibey Jacob" <jibey_jacob hotmail com>
To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 4:27 PM
Subject: Dual Booting Red Hat Linux 9


> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install RHL 9 on a Pentium 4 PC with the Intel D845GLVA
> motherboard. I'm currently running Windows XP Home SP1 and I want to be
able
> to dual boot WinXP and RHL 9.
>
> My 80 GB Western Digital hard drive is fully occupied by the WinXP NTFS.
It
> would appear that I have to resize this partition using the Red Hat parted
> utility. More specifically I'm thinking of issuing the following command
in
> parted: resize 1 0.031 45000. And then I would run the Anaconda installer
> and use the built-in automatic partitioning feature to create my /, /swap
> and boot partitions. Can this method reliably work?
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> Jibey Jacob
>
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