Re: installing on a partition
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:36:31 +0100
Ivan Glushkov <glushkov@mail.desy.de> wrote:
>messmate wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:39:27 +0100
>>Jochen Schulz <kannstmichma@gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>* Christian Evans:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I will be completing a build in the next couple of days and have
>>>>decided to install Debian on my new system. However, I also need XP
>>>>installed, and I am not sure which I should install on my hard drive
>>>>first.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Install Windows first, then Debian. Otherwise Windows would overwrite
>>>your boot manager (lilo or grub). The installer for sarge should even
>>>enable you to resize an existing Windows partition, but I would
>>>carefully plan the partition table before installing anything (takes
>>>less time, involves no risk). Since you are reinstalling everything
>>>
>>>
>>>from scratch that shouldn't be a problem.
>>
>>
>>>Just use the Windows installer for creating an NTFS or FAT partition
>>>and leave the rest of the disk empty. When you're finished, use the
>>>Debian installer to partition the rest. You may want to have a
>'shared'>>partition, on which Windows *and* Linux can write (mp3s,
>movies...).>>The best way to do this is to create a large FAT partition
>because>>Linux has no (free) NTFS write support. You can do that at
>install time>>and select a mount point for it (eg "/data").
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I have installed different distributions of Linux before, and you
>can>>>usually setup a partition table. Is it similar with Debian?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Yes. Although sarge is not yet stable (and it may even take a while
>to>>get there) I suggest you use the new sarge installer. Most people
>think>>it is more user friendly, especially for new users. The drawback
>is>>that you may run into minor or (very unlikely) major problems
>because>>there are still some changes made to sarge. On the other hand,
>you save>>the possible headache of updating from woody to sarge. And
>remember:>>the woody installer cannot resize partitions.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>If I use a setup like this, will I be prompted for which partition I
>>>>wish to boot to?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>The installer will search for existing operating systems and ask you
>>>whether Windows should be included in the boot menu. Say 'Yes' and
>>>everything will be fine. Of course, if you miss that opportunity, you
>>>still can add Windows to the boot menu later.
>>>
>>>J.
>>>
>>>
>>I've installed win98 on a vfat partition (first of cource) and after
>>that ( 1 year later) i've installed win200 + professionnal on the same
>>partition !
>>So, win200 is a ntfs filesystem, do it ?
>>I can write/read without any problem to win.
>>
>>
>How do you do that? I have tried a lot of thinks, but I never saw
>sombody writing from Linux to ntfs... Some program, or just options in
>fstab that I have missed in man page?
>
>Ivan Glushkov
I don't understand :(
Bought a new hd.
Installed the first partition as VFAT32 with fdisk to win.
Then installed win98.
Bought a win2000 + 2000professionnal.
Installed that over the first win98.
Now I can run win2000 or win2000 professionnal wihout any problem
and can read and write from linux to that partition=win.
mess-mate
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