hi punith hyave you tried installing virtual box? You can download it from the sun site. Just google search virtual box. You can then install a second operating system in virtual box and work on both operating systems in parallel. You probably know this. If you do, I am sorry. Bhupendra bhatt
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:00 PM, mahjongg <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
