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Mark Knecht schrieb: |
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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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Yes, it's the same with WinXP. You need only a very small primary |
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partition for the bootloader. (32MB is enought). |
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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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Well, the reason is that the Windows installation is misunderstanding. |
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Given the situation, you have a free primary partition and a free |
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extended partition. Now, at the installation progress you can choice the |
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extended partition to install Windows on. But then, Windows |
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*automatically* grab the primary partition for its bootloader. So, after |
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that, you have a NTFS/FAT formated primary partition where the Windows |
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bootloader lays and a NTFS/FAT extended partition where Windows itself |
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is placed. The funny thing is - Windows lays at D:\Windows then. Silly |
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drive letters... |
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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 / |
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> 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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An alternative would be a scenario I described at top. You can put |
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Windows at the end of your harddrive into a extended partition, if you |
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keep your sda1 free. If you select sda11 as your desired Windows |
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partition, it will take sda1 for its bootloader. |
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Regards |
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Christian |
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