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On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 22:06 -0500, Sean wrote: |
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> I have a laptop I want to setup to boot either Gentoo or Windows. |
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[snip] |
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> Would anyone recommend which is the best method for setup, start with |
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> Gentoo or Windows? |
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it doesn't matter, IMHO, so long as you know that windows will overwrite |
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your grub (or lilo) mbr, in favour of its own. From there you have two |
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choices: |
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1. use the windows to chain-boot linux (possible, but I don't know what |
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for :) |
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2. re-install grub with your live-cd (which you still have from you |
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recent gentoo install) |
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Hence you can see that it may be easier to install windows first, so you |
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don't have to do grub twice. |
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> I also want to setup a common partition for data storage which both can |
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> access. Again, can anyone recommend a setup? |
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I use an ntfs (for windows) partition, various ext2/3 partitions for |
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linux, and a fat32 partition to share between the two (video files, |
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music, etc) |
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HTH, |
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Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au> |
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