On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 22:30 -0400, Doug wrote: > I just downloaded debian-testing i386 Net Inst and burned the > .iso onto disk. Before I do something silly, I want to make sure > that this is designed to live with other os's on the hd. (I remember > one older version of Ubuntu that took over the drive, and wiped > everything else out.) If everything is copacetic, I'll put it > on my laptop along with Win XP and PcLinuxOs. Please advise. > thanx--doug
Hello Doug, The setup you describe I have installed it a few times with WinXp, and other Debians and Ubuntus on other partitions. It works just fine. I also usualy use the netinst approach. The one thing you must be absolutelly sure is that you have one partition totally free, or if it is not free, you don't mind loosing data in it. That is the partition to which you will install your new Debian. You must be absolutely sure of its device name (hda1, sda3, whatever), because the installer/partitioning/formating process will ask you something like: "I have found these X partitions ? where do I put your new Debian ? and about the others, do you want to mount them on startup ? do yopu want to erase/format them" If you are sure about the answers to these questions then you will be ok. Even if you have any doubt during the process you can simply power of the computer (but never do this during teh formating or during the bootloader/grub install). Having said that... there is always some percentage of risk (usually less that 0.001%) that anything crazy might happen. So, if any really important data exists in any of the partitions might as well back it up... just to be 100% safe. Like I said: I've installed a setup similar to yours several times using lenny and squeeze netinsts and never had any problem whatsoever... go for it... jmf > > -- > Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. > --A.M. Greeley > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1284114062.2312.9.ca...@squeeje.critical.pt
