Re: Installation help
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 06:30:55PM +0530, Sunil Pandey wrote:
> This may not be the correct place to ask but since it is related
> to debian installation, I would ask it anyway. Thing is debian allows a
> way to install through existing dos. Now, my comp already has Win-2000
> and that would not let me boot into dos. can someone suggest a way to do
> this.
Installing via DOS is useful if you have a DOS system to install from.
As W2K is NT-derived, and not DOS derived, there is no underlying DOS OS
for you to boot to. You'll have to provide your own.
A better suggestion might be to try a boot floppy installation. This
involves one or two floppies, plus a downloaded disk image, which you
store someplace on your system.
While you can have more partitions, I'd suggest three as a minimum for
this method:
1: W2K
2: Linux root partition
3: other Linux partition
...initially, you'd install Linux into the root partition, while holding
the install image on the third partition.
As I said, more partitions may not hurt, and your decision should be
driven by available space, physical drive(s) configuration, and
anticipated use.
A small(ish) boot partition, a Linux swap partition, and possible
breakouts for /tmp, /var, /usr, /usr/local, and /home may be
appropriate. However, the justifications fall well within the realm of
religion.
I'd suggest you take a look at several of the Linux HOWTOS, including
those covering multiple-OS booting, large disks, and LILO.
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