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January 7th, 2006 12:00
9150: linux/XP dual boot
Hello,
I just bought a dimension 9150. I dont have seen it yet (it's on its way), and I am planning its installation.
My old (very) PC is running a linux system which I need for somme applications. This linux system is installed on a 20 Gb IDE disk.
I thing (hope) I have two options:
(1) (re)partition my new hard drive and install a small partition on it for my linux system
(2) install my old disk onto my new PC
In both cases I want to use the windows XP licence shipped with the new PC and I want to keep the Dell restoration system available.
If the option (1) is feasable, and if it needs a system reinstall for (re)partitionning it should probably be done before anythink else ...
For option (2) I am unsure about the installation of un IDE Disk drive.
Any advice ? howtos ?
Guy
I just bought a dimension 9150. I dont have seen it yet (it's on its way), and I am planning its installation.
My old (very) PC is running a linux system which I need for somme applications. This linux system is installed on a 20 Gb IDE disk.
I thing (hope) I have two options:
(1) (re)partition my new hard drive and install a small partition on it for my linux system
(2) install my old disk onto my new PC
In both cases I want to use the windows XP licence shipped with the new PC and I want to keep the Dell restoration system available.
If the option (1) is feasable, and if it needs a system reinstall for (re)partitionning it should probably be done before anythink else ...
For option (2) I am unsure about the installation of un IDE Disk drive.
Any advice ? howtos ?
Guy
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reverseswing200
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January 7th, 2006 20:00
option 2 is not economical since your old pc will be left unrinning due to the lack of a hard drive unless you buy one for that. so lets stick to the 1st option.
your brand new pc will have 3 partitions.
1> a 30 -60 mb fat32 partition
2> c:\ntfs windows partition occupying allmost the whole hard drive capacity
3> a dell pc restore partition whic is also a fat partition of capacity 3-4gb. usually around 3.5gb.
Now you need to format you brand new hdd by deleting the 1st 2 partitions and keeping the 3rd pc restore partition untouched. then install winxp in the unpartitioned space.after succesful installation of winxp, you can proceed wit the installation of linux and format it either with ext2 or ext3 or a reiser partition system.ext 2 is more stable though.i ahve some systems with ext3 partition system crashing frequently.
if u want to install linux without reformatting the hdd, then you can download partition magic and create a new partition by resizing the original c: partition using partition magic and then install linux on the new partition.
infact u can even format that new partition using partition maging and create a swap aprtition for linux too.
Guy Marcenac
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January 8th, 2006 08:00
The first option is my profered one for the reason you pointed out. But there remain two questions.
What about the first small fat partition ?
If I dont use partition magic, which is a quite expensive tool for a one shot operation, whill the system tools shipped with the PC allow me to do these partitioning actions ? I understood I'll not even get a windows XP CD, and partioning and formating are quite risky in such a contest, arent they ?