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hrez
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 Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 1:21 am Post subject: Installing Gentoo after Windows XP |
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Hi,
I already have windows xp sp2 installed. What i want to have is a dual boot (gentoo + win xp). Is it possible to install Gentoo, if you already got an OS installed?. Please let me know where i can find the info or how to do it?
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thoughtform
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| Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 1:25 am Post subject: |
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yes it's possible. you have to configure grub with some info at the end for booting XP.
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title Windows XP Professional
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
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hrez
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| Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 1:33 am Post subject: |
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| And i won't get in to trouble with making partitions? |
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thoughtform
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i'd use another disk to do this, if i were you.
if you have free space on your drive, you can make partitions just fine.
if not, you'll have to resize them using partition magic or something similar. |
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d0nju4n
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Keep in mind that if you use a spearate disk, I think you will have to use something like
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map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1 |
in grub.conf
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Sith_Happens
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If you want to install linux on the same disc you'll probably need to resize your NTFS partition. Here is a post where various options for resizing an NTFS partition are discussed. Of course you should listen to my suggestions in the post  . Seriously though I installed Gentoo on a Windows XP machine, and my meathod for resizing an NTFS partition worked for me with no data loss whatsoever.
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jdgill0
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| d0nju4n wrote: | Keep in mind that if you use a spearate disk, I think you will have to use something like
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map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1 |
in grub.conf |
You would need to do the mappings if Windows was not on the primary hard drive.
Also, note that if you should reinstall Windows again later on, it will overwrite the MBR, and hence erase your grub setup. As an alternative to using grub on the MBR, you can actually configure the boot loader in Windows to be able to load Linux.
See the following as a guide:
http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/02/15/2023237.shtml?tid=130&tid=2&tid=91&tid=11 |
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hrez
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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Thanx a lot guys. If i have any further questions i will let you know.
Greetz Harm. |
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