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Re: install linux to separate hard drive from xp

Lind S Ng writes....
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> I am trying to use Disk Druid to install Linux to my machine, but I =
> don't seem to be having much luck.  I got as far as boot disk druid with =
> redhat linux 7, but disk druid claims that all my disks are full. =20
> I have two IDE drives, one of about 40 gig, running XP (the primary =
> master, designated C:) and one of about 4.5 gig (primary slave, =
> designated D:, which I wish to make a Linux partition)
> Looking at the disk in XP, it has the usual stuff that MS stick all over =
> things, but this is nowhere near enough to fill the drive (still has =
> 3.99 gig left).

The problem is that you have all the disk partitioned
for WinDoZ.  And by default, that what a win install wants to do.

I sounds like you want to install Linux on the free space left on
the WinDoZ partitions.
Sorry, but you can't do that.
It's not like just adding another program under WinDoZ.
You need Linux partitions.  At least a swap and a / partition.
(But most suggest splitting the / up to /home, /usr, /boot, etc)

Lets look at the primary drive first  (hda)
Do I understand that you have roughly 36 gigs of a 40 gig drive
used?  WOW!  I assume that not just the OS.  WinDoZ is big and ugly,
but not nearly THAT bad.
There are programs out there (help me some one.  I don't know the name)
that will let you re-partition that disk without wiping it out.
The recommendation is always backup your data just in case, but
I'm not sure how you are backing up 36 gigs.
Clean up any of the unwanted stuff first so you can get as much
space as possible.

The second drive, hdb.
Are you using that for WinDoZ also?
If not, scrap that partition and use it also.

That will give you roughly 8.5GB.
A little more space would be nice, but 8.5
is definitely do-able.


Your other option would be to scrap everything and re-partition
and install both OS's.  If you can cram your valuables onto hdb,
you can scrap hda and partition and install WinDoZ on hda.
If you do that, you might want to consider making 2 WinDoZ partitions.
One big enough for the OS plus a little room to grow, and one
for your data.  Leave the rest unused for your Linux partitions.
Be sure to install WinDoZ first so Linux will see it and add it to the
boot manager.



> Please forgive me if this is one of those things where I should RTFM, =
> but I looked very hard and could find no reference to this problem.
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