Re: Re: Dual Booting Red Hat Linux 9

["adwint pandora be" <adwint pandora be>]

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>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!
>
You can use 'Boot Magic', but you don't necessary have to.  
The boatloaders 'GRUB' and 'LILO', which both come with RH9, will do nicely.
I prefer GRUB, since it's editable when a boot fails.

Albert

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Jibey Jacob" 
>To: 
>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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