View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
fhslacrosse13 n00b
Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 2
|
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:31 pm Post subject: win xp dual boot |
|
|
I have an Acer Aspire 3000 notebook with a Mobile AMD Sempron 2600+ processor, 512 mb memory, and a 40 gig hdd. I am currently running windows xp, but i would like to install gentoo and have it set up so that i can choose which os to boot to when i turn on my laptop. I am a pretty good windows user but only a novice when it come to any distro of linux. Is there a way that i can make the xp partition smaller so i can install gentoo? |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Sangeki Apprentice
Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 186
|
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:36 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Yes you can safely shrink your Windows Partition (even NTFS).
Unfortunately I don't know if the Gentoo LiveCD includes any kind of tools you could use for that.
You should definately check out the Gparted LiveCD.
It works really great.
I just resized a NTFS and FAT32 Partition recently without any Problems and the Image is only 30 MB big.
Last edited by Sangeki on Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:38 pm; edited 1 time in total |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Vulpes_ Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 119 Location: Hungary
|
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:38 pm Post subject: |
|
|
You can use just about every partition manager software, including but not limited to linux apps. Partition Magic or PartImage or others, whichever you choose... |
|
Back to top |
|
|
SithMaddox Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Posts: 149
|
Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:55 am Post subject: |
|
|
I have never been able to shrink an NTFS partition without corrupting it. I've tried qparted and partition magic, both screwed it up. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
goamage n00b
Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 2
|
Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 7:19 pm Post subject: |
|
|
i didnt have a problem with partition magic. i recomend it _________________ Mage |
|
Back to top |
|
|
pony-tail n00b
Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Posts: 46 Location: Brisbane
|
Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:35 am Post subject: |
|
|
If you are using the Partition magic 8.0 bootable cd be VERY careful if you have XP SP2
as it will frag your system (SP1 is ok I believe) but if you have 8.0 installed in XP there
is a free update to 8.1 that has a fix for this - but it leaves the cd only useful for initial
setup or installation - no longer a problem for me I ditched XP SP2 and went back to 2k.
and my Gentoo box dual boots with - - - 98SE but its only a rather lame PIII 800 _________________ Old but active |
|
Back to top |
|
|
fhslacrosse13 n00b
Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 2
|
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:36 am Post subject: |
|
|
so i have a 40 gig hdd. should i just split it in half or leave a little more for the xp side seeing as i need that more for school and stuff. also when i resize the drive i should leave the part of the hdd that xp is not on unformatted right? then when i install gentoo it will format its part of the hdd. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
pony-tail n00b
Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Posts: 46 Location: Brisbane
|
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:21 am Post subject: |
|
|
If you use the current graphical installer it has a setting that allows it to partition free space for Gentoo - 10 or 12 gig of free space at the back end of the drive would be fine. You will have to configure Grub to dual boot AFTER you have completed the first boot into gentoo as there is no option in the
installer to do it during install :-
something like this.
default 1
timeout 20
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda4
initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5
title=Windows 2000
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
You may have to change a few things like Win2000 to XP - But I hope you get the idea
the file is called - /boot/grub/grub.conf
edit it as root with nano or something similar. _________________ Old but active |
|
Back to top |
|
|
|