On Thursday 19 September 2002 06:40 pm, Steven Kopischke wrote: > My laptop is returning home tomorrow after a week in the shop for a bad > hard drive. It is a 4-month old Compaq Presario with 256Mb RAM and a 20Gb > hard drive -- plenty of room for XP and Linux to coexist while I migrate to > Linux. That having been said, how do I begin? > > (I have the three Mandrake 8.2 ISO CD's I created from downloads and once > successfully installed on the above-mentioned laptop. However, the lesson I > learned is that I can't be too cavalier with carving up my laptop.) > > From what I have read on this list over the past couple of weeks, I am > considering the following approach: > > 1. Start with XP loaded and install Partition Magic. (I would partition the > hard drive before installing anything if I could, but I only have a > 'recovery' CD that drops an image onto the hard drive without regard for > how I may want to partition it.) > 2. Carve the hard drive into at least four volumes: > a: Windows XP operating system and applications (leave as NTFS > file system) > b: Linux operating system and applications (ext2 file system) > c: Linux swap > d: Data (FAT 32 file system so I can access from both OS') > 3. Install Mandrake 8.2 > 4. Install XP applications > 5. Restore data files > > My questions are these: > - Is my approach sound? > - Will my drive partitioning work? > - How large should the drive volumes be to maximize utility? (I know I can > resize at will with Partition Magic, but I'd like to leave it stable for a > while.) > - Is there anything I am neglecting to take into consideration? > > Many thanks in advance for your input. > > > Steven Kopischke > Green Bay, WI USA
Steven: Looks good, and sounds like fun. One suggestion though: I've had better luck confining Partition Magic to the WIndows stuff only, and using the Mandrake tools for Linux. (Although it might have been operator error... Nah.) -- cmg
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