on Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:00:32AM +0200, Touhid Ghasemi (039118@students.emu.edu.tr) wrote:
> Hello
> I want to join to Linux Users , now i'm using MS-Win XP Home , but i
> want to install Debian on my computer, i'v downloaded all of 7 CD
> Images from FTP site and already have em on CD.
>
> problem is here that , i want to keep my windows xp and use linux
> behind my windows without loosing anything, i have just one partition
> that's C and the capacity of drive is 60GB that 25 GB is free.
>
> now i dont know how to create new partition than linux can install
> itself. which type of partition i need to create?
>
> please help me how i can install debian in this situation.
First: BACK UP YOUR SYSTEM. If you cannot create a backup, you may
lose all your data. This happens regularly on the #debian IRC support
channel, to people who've been warned that repartitioning a drive
without backups is playing Russian roulette.
As an alternative: buy a second hard drive and install GNU/Linux onto
this. It's significantly less complex than repartitioning, and cheaper
than buying a backup solution (though I'd recommend you do that as
well).
Read the following.
Read the Debian Installation manual:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install
Linux Installation Strategies mini-HOWTO
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Install-Strategies/index.html
Linux + Windows HOWTO
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+Windows-HOWTO/index.html
Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html
Peace.
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