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PaveQ
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 Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:58 am Post subject: Resizing and moving my partitions order to install windows |
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Given up with wine and cedega, just installing windows as gaming system. BUT, of course windows won't install to hda7 
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Disk /dev/hda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 19 152586 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 20 105 690795 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3 106 3145 24418800 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 3146 24321 170096220 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 3146 3270 1004031 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 3271 21507 146488671 83 Linux
hda1 /boot
hda2 /swap
hda3 /
hda5 /tmp
hda6 /home
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Also increasing swap size would be good but not necessary. I see few options how to do this:
1. Use tool like partition magic, wonder if it can handle ext2 and reiserfs?
2. Seems that hda3 would be nice size to install windows, maybe I could copy it to end of the disk and then try to install windows to hda3. That could success with one hack, but didn't work for extended partitions.
3. Back up everything importand and do new install. If I copy /etc, /var, /usr/portage and my home I should be able to boostrap new system pretty easily without losing my configs?
So any suggessions how to do this or which method I should pick... |
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die_vms_die
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Location: MS
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:11 am Post subject: |
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Question 1.
Dont know. Boot gentoo derived www.sysresccd.org disc, and running qtparted maybe.
Question 3.
I succesfully "moved" my gentoo install from 80GB drive to new 160Gb drive.
Booted off install cd, mounted root, and used tar czpf to file on external drive.
umount root. Created new partions on new drive extracted with tar xzpf.
Booted cd to not have /sys /dev and /proc full of stuff, but still backup those mount points. stage4 excluding stuff on gentoo wiki is crazy. |
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syg00
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Location: Brisbane, AUS
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 10:13 am Post subject: |
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Mmmm - first up, move all Linux partitions to logicals. *Especially* swap - what a waste of a limited resource (primary partitions).
Anyway, | Quote: | | BUT, of course windows won't install to hda7 |
is of course false.
Just as we use a boot partition, Windoze can use a system partition to hold ntldr, ntdetect , ...
*that* has to be a primary - but quite small.
The rest can be in a logical - which, of course, is called (by M$oft) the boot partition. I kid you not.
Try it - should be easy if you move the swap partition. |
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