Hello Thomas, hope you enjoyed the "Kaiserwetter" this weekend!
> Uhm. Yeah. If I'm not totally mistaken then you are using up all non-preserved > disk space on /sda2 and there's not much room after the second windows > partition. The first point is correct I try to delete sda2 and use all its space to create the linux partitions. The second statement should be truth but it isn't. There is enough space to create all of the partitions. I think the setup-storage could have a problem with this "create this in the middle"-task. > > Btw. you may or may not be interested in LVM. Configure sda2 as a PV and > provide /, swap and /home as logical volumes? > > e.g.: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > disk_config disk1 preserve_always:1,3 disklabel:msdos fstabkey:uuid > > primary - 0 - - > primary - 16000 - - > primary - 0 - - > > disk_config lvm > vg vg_system disk1.1 > vg_system-root / 500M-8G ext3 errors=remount-ro > vg_system-swap swap 2G swap defaults > vg_system-home /home 1G-70% ext3 rw,noatime,nosuid,nodev createopts="-L > home -m 1" tuneopts="-c 0 -i 0" > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LVM would be a nice way I will check this. Thanks for the hint. > > Something like this? Needs some finetuning with the boot loader. I would > advise > to install GRUB2 into /dev/sda2, dd the relevant blocks to the windows boot > partition and configure windows to chainload grub2 (or the linux kernel). > > There's also the possibility to let GRUB2 do all the boot handling, but at > least Windows 7 is really bitchy and will refuse to create 'Volume Shadow > Copies' (e.g. the windows built in backup utility will fail with a very > non-descriptive error message.) You are right Windows 7 is really bitchy! Especially with the boot and BDEdrive partitions. > > bye > thomas > I have another idea to realize it. I also will try to backup this drive with dd via partition-hook. And after the setup-storage I try to restore this backup with dd with another hook. May be this would be a way.
