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On 5/1/06, Bob Sanders <rsanders@×××.com> wrote: |
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> Mark Knecht, mused, then expounded: |
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> > Is there no better way with this stupid M$ operating system? |
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> Starting around Win2K, all that is needed is a small DOS/FAT partition at |
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> the beginning of the disk - 128 MB or so. And a suitable primary |
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> partition that is a number of 1 to 4. |
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding. I saw no options when I attempted the XP |
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install to do anything but install XP on a single partition. I don't |
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think the XP Home install asked for anything other than which |
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partition to place it on. |
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I don't know how to proceed other than moving my Gentoo root partition: |
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lightning ~ # fdisk -l |
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Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes |
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255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders |
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Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes |
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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/dev/sda1 * 1 136 1092388+ 7 HPFS/NTFS |
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/dev/sda2 137 1352 9767520 83 Linux |
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/dev/sda3 1353 30401 233336092+ 5 Extended |
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/dev/sda5 1353 6216 39070048+ 83 Linux |
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/dev/sda6 6217 6703 3911796 83 Linux |
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/dev/sda7 6704 8163 11727418+ 83 Linux |
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/dev/sda8 8164 9988 14659281 83 Linux |
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/dev/sda9 * 9989 10001 104391 83 Linux |
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/dev/sda10 10002 10251 2008093+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris |
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/dev/sda11 10252 12801 20482843+ b W95 FAT32 |
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lightning ~ # |
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sda11 was set up as a d:\ drive to try to help XP out but it didn't |
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work. XP won't make any sensible use of it. |
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Since the extended partition goes to the end of the drive I cannot |
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make a 4th primary partition. |
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The most sensible thing - I think - is to move the / partition on sda2 |
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to someplace after sda10. This would give XP 11GB which would clearly |
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be enough. If I moved the root partition then I wouldn't need the W95 |
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FAT32 partition at sda11. |
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Can you clarify how I set up XP using a small DOS partition only? I'm |
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probably missign the point, and I hate asking Windows questions of |
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this group. Thanks in advance. |
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> And I think it could also be on a second drive, as long as the the |
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> first partition of the first drive was bootable and contained the |
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> Windows boot loader. |
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> fwiw - One of my systems has Win2K on the second partition of the primary |
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> drive, with Win98SE on the first partition of the primary drive and Gentoo |
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> on the second drive. No problems with the booting. |
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I like the ideas generally but don't want to place a second drive in |
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the box. I've got a 250GB drive here which is only 1/3 used... |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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