the installer will (should) ask if you want to share the hard-disk with windows, if it detects it, and there is space for another OS. One pre-condition is that before attempting to install gOS you need to boot Windows and defragment the hard-disk with the defragmentation program. That is because otherwise there probably won't be any free space at the end of the hard-disk, for the installer to split off a part for gOS (to partition the hard-disk into two separate partitions, one for Windows, and one for gOS. Also, you need to power down normally after defragmentation has ended, or the installer will detect that the NTFC has "unfinished business", and that beans it can't trust NTFC enough to partition off the unused space without damaging the NTFC filing system.
So in short, yes you can install gOS next to Windows, but you MUST defragment the windows hard-disk first, and close down normally, not just turn off the power. Now you can boot the gOS live CD, and on the desktop of the running gOS system you can see an Icon of the installer program. Before running the installer, I would advise to turn off the screen saver of gOS (see the configuration menu), because its not beneficial to the stability of the system if the screensaver kicks in during the installation, especially if you have less than 512MB of RAM. Now you can run the installer, it asks for a few simple questions, you can answer them or accept the defaults, but at a certain moment the installer starts the hard-disk partitioner, and you need to be careful there, you -should- get an option where you can choose to "share", do NOT choose "use whole disk", or gOS will wipe the disk clean, and that can NOT be reverted. Also do not use the "manual" method, unless you are an expert, and have special needs. You -SHOULD- get an option where you get a chance to divide u the hard- disk, and can use a slider to choose how much to give to Windows, and how much to give to gOS. The part to the left of the slider is the remaining space for Windows, and to the right is how much gOS will get. The installer will put the slider at a place where there will be a fair amount of space remaining for windows, if you slide the slider too much to the left the installer will warn you when continuing if you gave too little space for windows. gOS can get by with just 5 gB but if you want to install many more applications, or want space for other stuff you might want to give it (much) more than that. Now you can continue, and if all goes well gOS will be installed, and at the end a boot manager will be installed, so you can choose during booting which OS you want to boot. Of course there can always go something wrong (a power out, or other problem) So if you have material on the windows system that is dear to you, you might want to back it up to a CD, DVD or memory stick before doing this, just in case. On 13 sep, 22:41, "Doug Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I'm trying to understand how to install this without blowing away > windows. I'm just too dense. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of Johnuw93 > Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 10:22 AM > To: gOS Linux > Subject: Re: gOS E Rocket - A great OS please don't abandon it! > > I bought an Everex gPC2 that, according to the Everex website, uses > Rocket. I have a couple of problems, the main one being that Firefox > locks up frequently. I added 1G of RAM, so that should not be a > problem, and the computer is not a month old. (I am not the only one > to experience the problem with Firefox. Everex support said not to > upgrade to Firefox 3.) I was thinking that installing gOS 3 would > eliminate existing problems. But I don't know if I can install it on > the gPC2 and I don't want to create more problems than I solve. > > So, in short, does anyone know whether it is a good idea to install > gOS 3 on a gPC2? Should I simply try Opera or another browser > instead? > > On Sep 5, 3:34 pm, Danny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried gOS 3 Beta, it was cool in some ways but I am an older user, > > with an older laptop. RocketE uses the enlightenment window manager > > which is much more easy on resources for older hardware and low ram. > > I re-installed myRocketE and I am not going back to gOS 3. Several > > posts from newbies, I am barely beyond newbie myself, have pushed me > > to write this asRocketE is stable, has great hardware support for > > older systems and is easy to use and learn. > > If you can, please putRocketE back up on the mirrors so others can > > see what a great job you did with this gOS version. > > For those of us that need a great and easy to use OS that meets all > > the basic needs without the gadgets and eye candy, I can't > recommendrocketOS highly enough. I hope you continue support for it so it > can > > be upgraded with new versions of Ubuntu? > > Thanks for a great system! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
