okay, I just re-read your question, and now realize you said that you wanted to use the 15GB for gOS, which is great because it means you do not have to worry about resizing anything, and gOS can split the 15GB into a EXT3 Linux partition, and a small swap partition (1,5 times the RAM size is normal). Because you only have four partitions they can all be primary partitions too. You do NOT want to resize the first partition (the one with C: in it, as splitting that would create a new partition in between the first, and the recovery partition. Almost 15GB is enough for gOS. You need to use gparted to manually split the 15GB in two with EXT3 and a small swap partition. Make sure they are the last two partitions, so make sure that the recovery partition is not last, also do net forget to set the partition types to EXT3 and swap. if all goes well the installer will find the two (EXT3 and swap) partitions and offer to install gOS in them. If not I am afraid you need to use "manual", so take notes of the exact names gparted uses for the two partitions, place "root" (\) in the EXT3 partition and swap in the swap partition.
good luck. On 7 jan, 18:59, mahjongg <[email protected]> wrote: > If you use the normal "guided resize", then gOS wil ignore the latter > two partitions, and will try to split the first (C: partition) in two. > This might be just what you want, but there is a chance Windows gets > confused, and changes driveletters, as an extra partition is inserted > (actually two, one for Linux itself, and one for a linux swapfile) so > it may also be that gOS tries to create extended partitions. > > In this case you might better off by manually resizing the partitions, > using the partition manager gparted, which should be on the live_CD. > > You need to move all three Windows partitions to the "front" of the > drive, so at the end a new clean partition is left over that can be > used by gOS. But read my other answer about defragmenting Windows > first, defragment all the three partitions (C:drive, recovery drive, > and extra drive). > > After that use gparted to make the C: partition smaller, then shift > the two other partitions so that all the new space is at the end. Now > in the new space create a Linux ext3 file system. I'm not sure how > Linux will handle the fact that it cannot add another primary > partition for the swap file, but just try what the installer thinks of > this situation, perhaps it will automatically split the last partition > in two extended partitions. Sorry, this is where my knowledge ends. > > This is a very tricky business, so backup! > > On 7 jan, 14:08, punith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > i have a compaq laptop with with vista running. i want to have a dual > > boot system with vista and gos. i have downloaded the gos 3 > > (.iso image)and have it on a cd. i have local drive(c:) of 126 Gb and > > recovery drive of 8 Gb and extra drive of 15 Gb. > > i want to install gos in the extra drive without losing or changing > > data on my recovery drive or the primary drive(c:).i tried installing > > the gos with the cd and in step 4 i.e partitioning i chose the guided > > resize which estimated 14%(17 Gb) for gos and the rest for windows > > vista. will this option make any change in the disk allocation?? i > > want to have a separate drive as it is now. though proceeding with > > this option gave me an error that the size is too small. i dont > > understand what it meant. > > i dont know how to use the manual option. please help me > > in this regard > > > thank you > > punith --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
