Re: Install to disk w/school's NT present??
At 09:20 PM 2/3/1999 -0800, kaynjay@igalaxy.net wrote:
>I'm fighting the system at my community college to get Debian installed on
>five (of 20) lab computers which are maintained by the school's Info. Tech.
>group. Windows rules. The lab computers are occasionally wiped clean and a
>fresh image of NT installed off the LAN.
>
>I want to repartition the drives, put Linux in alongside NT, and boot to it
>(most likely off a boot disk) when teaching a computational chemistry
>course.
>
>Does anyone have experience with a setup similar to this? Am I being naive
>about doing this? Would there be problems with the disk wipe/image update
>process? (Disrupting the status-quo is the big issue here.)
It depends on the software used to do the wipe/update. If it just copies
the files from a network server to a local drive, I don't see a problem. If
it's copying an image using something like Ghost, you may find that your
Linux partitions get wiped out. At any rate, I don't think it'll hurt the
status-quo any to experiment; the worst thing I foresee happening is that
your Linux setup gets wiped out; the absolute worst thing I can foresee is
that the one (or 5) machines you experiment on will have to be manually
reset back to the condition they were in. I'd say, "Go for it."
>Also, is there any issue about the root partition being more than a Gb in on
>the IDE drive?? (The PC's are IBM-brand 133 or 166 pentiums, "fairly"
>recent ...). I was thinking about simply chopping off the back end of the
>current, single partition. (I don't know if NT has a defrag function,
>though.)
>
>Thanks for any help with this.
>
>Kenward Vaughan
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