Re: Install manual organization
Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 03:37:01PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> >
> > Yes... It would be great if we had more info for people who are
> > installing debian but wanna retain their existing OS. I admit the
> > boot-loader configuration stuff isn't likely to solve that (well, if
> > we use grub on i386, that might be possible).
> >
> > Interestingly, the process for all arches is similar:
> >
> > - do your partitioning in the non-linux OS, leaving a place hold or
> > room for Debian
> >
> > - do the install, changing that placeholder or free space to a linux
> > partition, etc.
>
> hmm so you do have to do that on say DOS to? actually yes i remember
> hearing about recent versions doing little special things to the
> partition table to make sure any partitions not created by it would be
> randomly scribbled...
No, you don't have to do this, but I generally recommend doing your
partitioning the non-Linux OS first, since windows/mac etc are more
finicky than Linux. With DOS' fdisk, you can just leave
the space on disk you want to use with Linux as free space. You don't
actually have to create placeholders.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onshore.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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