--- "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:00:32AM +0200, Touhid > Ghasemi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hello > > I want to join to Linux Users , now i'm using > MS-Win XP Home , but i > > want to install Debian on my computer, i'v > downloaded all of 7 CD > > Images from FTP site and already have em on CD. > > > > problem is here that , i want to keep my windows > xp and use linux > > behind my windows without loosing anything, i have > just one partition > > that's C and the capacity of drive is 60GB that > 25 GB is free. > > > > now i dont know how to create new partition than > linux can install > > itself. which type of partition i need to create? > > > > please help me how i can install debian in this > situation. > > First: BACK UP YOUR SYSTEM. If you cannot create a > backup, you may > lose all your data. This happens regularly on the > #debian IRC support > channel, to people who've been warned that > repartitioning a drive > without backups is playing Russian roulette. > > As an alternative: buy a second hard drive and > install GNU/Linux onto > this. It's significantly less complex than > repartitioning, and cheaper > than buying a backup solution (though I'd recommend > you do that as > well). > > > Read the following. > > Read the Debian Installation manual: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install > > Linux Installation Strategies mini-HOWTO > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Install-Strategies/index.html > > Linux + Windows HOWTO > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+Windows-HOWTO/index.html > > Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html > > Peace. > > -- > Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? > Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux > dispute. > http://sco.iwethey.org/ >
> ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature (This is a repost from the knoopix, woody and lilo thread) Here is what i did I am not sure this is recommended, but it works wonderfully for me. I bought a used 10G hardrive and installed it in my computer has hda (primary IDE master) and I installed Linux on that drive. My original windows install is now primary IDE slave. I modified LILO so I can load XP or Linux. (see below - somehow the dual boot standard HOWTO way didn't work for me) That way i am sure I cannot messup with anything on my original installation. I can always go back to my original install if I find the Debian learning curve to steep at times :). Drawback: Since windows is partitionned in NTFS I could only read my windows file from the Linux side. You will need fs2explorer (google) to overcome this. Here is how I modified lilo.conf after googling for some time: http://www.ksoft-creative-projects.co.uk/klug/klug-general/2003-January/000060.html other = /dev/hdb1 label = windows map-drive = 0x80 to = 0x81 map-drive = 0x81 to = 0x80 table = /dev/hdb But backupping first is a good idea... I did not and, although everything went smoothly, I was a bit stressed during the whole process about loosing data GL! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
