>From what I read in various guides on dual booting it appears that initially I should have only one large partition for windows.
After installing XP I need to defrag so that XP and its components come to the very begining part and not scattered all over. Then I need to install Linux. It means I need to remove everything and restart. One guide however mentions that if I have already several partitions on the HDD look for other guide which addresses this, but does not give any reference. Is my understanding correct? Is there a guide for installing when already multipartitions have been set up? mohan On Nov 25, 2007 2:10 PM, Narender Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Usually you can create Four Primary partitions on a hard disk. > > The Extended partition is the way of creating the partitions logically in > a > primary partition if you need to have more than Four partitions . > > So you can create three active partitions and the rest of the partitions > as logical partitions in an extended partition. > > The size of (hd0,2) partition can be how many logical partitions you want > to > create. > > You can use the rest of the 80GB space on your hard disk for Linux. > > You don't need any extra utilities like ParteD to create partitions. > > The Distro which you are going to install will have the partition tool but > need to select the option "Create Custom Layout" instead of going for > "Automatic Configuration". > > Thanks, > Narender Rao > >
