On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Randy Stapilus <[email protected]> wrote: > I've decided to try installing a Linux Mint, and it's been going well > so far. I'm just getting into the partitioning, and it has asked me > something that makes me nervous. I'm going for a dual boot with XP, > which has already been on the machine. > > Mint's installer has gotten to "starting up the partitioner." I now > have in front of me a box that says, "Unmount partitions that are in > use?" It says, "The installer has detected that the following disks > have mounted partitions: /dev/sdb Do you want the installer to try > to unmount the partitions on these disks before continuing? If you > leave them mounted, you will not be able to create, delete or resize > partitions on these disks, but you may be able to install to exiting > partitions there." > > Yes and no buttons below, with the "no" indicating default.
This step of unmounting is not dangerous, but you are wandering into dangerous territory. Are you going to resize a partition, or use an empty partition that already exists? Just make sure you don't delete the partition containing your XP installation, but only resize it. Bill _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
