On 08/29/2011 10:23 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/08/29 19:30 (GMT+0800) George OLson composed:
Instead of making it dual boot (exactly two operating systems), make it multiboot (more than one installed operating system). Start in Windows. Use Windows' partition resizer to shrink D:. You can also use the Windows partitioner to create new partitions for use by Linux, and without an arbitrary location for the start of the extended (which is nothing but a partition table entry used to identify the location of a logical partition, not a real partition). The Linux installer can use these existing new partitions by resetting to the proper types and formatting as Linux native types.
Instead of creating one 20G for /, I suggest you consider making two 20G. Then when upgrade (or before, like for a devel beta release) time comes you can test the waters without disturbing your existing installation, installing the new on the extra /.
I think I may have a bigger problem now. For some reason I cannot boot into windows at all. It gives the initial windows splash screen for vista, which is just the little bar at the bottom middle of the screen moving side to side, and then there is a blue screen flash, and the boot sequence starts all over again. I am going to go ahead and load Linux (I can always put my original hard drive back in and try to recover using that), and see if the grub loader will allow me to dual boot to windows. Here is my idea, and you all can tell me if this will work: 1. Install linux now (since I can't boot to windows at all, though the drives are still there) - I will keep the larger ntfs partition unchanged at this point 2. once grub is installed, I will boot to windows and use the windows tools to shrink the D drive 3. in windows tools create the new partitions like you suggested, with 2 20G 4. re-install linux on the new partitions (I will not have used it for anything anyway) the challenge is the boot loader. Since I will already have grub installed, will this be a problem to re-install linux? Thanks George -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org