Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-17 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 11. November 2012 schrieb Joe: On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:09:36 -0600 Charles Blair c-bl...@illinois.edu wrote: I am trying to set up a dual-boot windows 7 / wheezy. The installer shows me 3 primary ntfs partitions, presumably for windows7. I have been able to

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-12 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 23:40:01 +0100 Charles Blair c-bl...@illinois.edu wrote: The installer shows me 3 primary ntfs partitions, presumably for windows7. What installer is that? Well, I'm assuming this is the Debian Installer 7.0 Beta2 you're using. First off it sounds like you have no 'free

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 10, 2012, at 9:49 PM, Charles Blair wrote: Thank you very much for your reply. I think I will post a restatement of the question. I would have thought that a dual boot of windows 7 and debian would be a common enough problem that there should be something about it somewhere, perhaps

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-11 Thread Joe
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:09:36 -0600 Charles Blair c-bl...@illinois.edu wrote: I am trying to set up a dual-boot windows 7 / wheezy. The installer shows me 3 primary ntfs partitions, presumably for windows7. I have been able to resize to create freespace. As I understand it, /

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-11 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Charles, On Nov 11, 2012, at 4:56 AM, Charles Blair wrote: Thanks again. I wish these issues had been addressed either by the installer itself or by the installation instructions. Tnere must be many other unsophisticated users that have encountered this problem. You're welcome, of

partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-10 Thread Charles Blair
I am trying to set up a dual-boot windows 7 / wheezy. The installer shows me 3 primary ntfs partitions, presumably for windows7. I have been able to resize to create freespace. As I understand it, / must be bootable, which seems to mean it must be a primary partition. However, when I

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 10, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Charles Blair wrote: I am trying to set up a dual-boot windows 7 / wheezy. The installer shows me 3 primary ntfs partitions, presumably for windows7. I have been able to resize to create freespace. As I understand it, / must be bootable, which seems to mean

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-10 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:51:29 -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: You only get 4 primary partitions. If you want any Logical partitions, you have to have to make one of the primary partitions an Extended partition, and put your Logical partitions inside that Extended partition. So, in effect, your

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-10 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 05:07:20 +, T o n g wrote: On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:51:29 -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: You only get 4 primary partitions. If you want any Logical partitions, you have to have to make one of the primary partitions an Extended partition, and put your Logical partitions

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-10 Thread Neil T . Dantam
At Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:09:36 -0600, Charles Blair wrote: I am trying to set up a dual-boot windows 7 / wheezy. Can you install grub2 to the MBR and have it boot both debian and MSWindows? This worked fine to dual-boot WinXP. As I understand it, / must be bootable, which seems to mean it