Re: XP then Linux
On Saturday 09 February 2002 09:21 pm, Bruce Burhans wrote:
> Thanks to Caleb and Noah for their advice, which I have saved along with
> Bens.
>
> To repeat: I'm a-ok with using a floppy to boot Debian until I
> become skilled enough with it to be able to dump XP.This won't take
> long.
> I'm sorry if I didn't make myself clear, but the heart of my
> question is this below, about whether I should leave the secind 10Gb as
> free space when I re-install xp, and if my conception of the use of
> cfdsk during setup is accurate. I've read the MAN page 4X but am still
> not sure if I"ve got it.
>
leaving the second 10gigs free sounds okay. you could also do a minimal
install of xp, since you plan to dump it anyway, and keep even more of the
disk free for the linux partitions. give me a rundown on what it is that
you're not sure about with cfdisk.
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