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Re: install linux to separate hard drive from xp

Jay, Thanks for the help and let me clarify the situation somewhat.  XP
tells me that I have 30.70 gig free space on C:  and 3.99 gig free space on
D:. Disk Druid (the recommended partition tool on Redhat Linux 7 install
disk) shows both these disk drives as full.  Since Disk Druid 'knows' that
the disks are full, it will not add more partitions.  If I format D: in
Windows, will Disk Druid then recognise the empty space?  Also these drives
are both formatted to NTFS file system, could this have a bearing on the
problem?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay Crews" <jpc jaycrews com>
To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: install linux to separate hard drive from xp


> Lind S Ng writes....
> >
> >
> > 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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