Fold line at 72 Char. On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 10:03:36AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Could somebody please advice me on a safe approach whereby , I can > have Debian on a Windows partition , sans data loss . ie : I want both > the OSes , for different reasons .
If you need POSIX under windows for school C programming lesson, go cygwin (pointer given in previous question) If you need LINUX on windows, there is a way but it is very complicated if you want to do it with Debian. > Can somebody who has done a similar thing , please outline what steps > are to be taken to this end , such that it is 100% certain that no > data loss will ever occur. Judging from your question... Not for you. Assume 100% chance of dataloss when you first play installing OS including Windows. :-) And, it is easier to install Linux normally. > I am planning to clear off the 'E:' of Windows (I am having an 8.44 GB > HDD)i (COPIED from another post of yours) | | Start | | End | Start |Number of| Part.|bootable|Head Cyl. Sector|System|Head Cyl. Sector| Sector |Sectors | MB -----+--------+----------------+------+----------------+--------+---------+---- 1 | yes | 1 0 1| 0Bh| 254 256 63| 63| 4128642|2015 2 | no | 0 257 1| 0Fh| 254 1023 63| 4128705| 12370050|6040 3 | no | 0 0 0| 00h| 0 0 0| 0| 0| 0 4 | no | 0 0 0| 00h| 0 0 0| 0| 0| 0 Why not install Debian/linux and lilo in /dev/hda2 (What you call D:) Install Debian MBR in /dev/hda Leave functioning windoze in /dev/hda (C:) as is. Read documents at http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp You have got a lots of homeworks to do. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ +