On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 02:35, LinuxLingam wrote: > dear all, > > surfed thru tldp.org, yolinux.org and even google, but somehow i just > can't find a HowTo on the specific topic: > > 1) how to install linux on a pc that already contains win98 and winxp > > any pointers, tutorials, faqs, howto ? > > thanks > > :-) > LL
I have a COMPAQ Presario computer at home that came with Win2k in the form of Compaq Quickrestore CDs. Now when installing windows, it doesn't give you any choices and simply creates a huge windows partition. Since everyone at home uses Windows except me, I couldn't just remove windows and install Linux on it. So what I did was fill up that partition with 10 Gigs of data (copied all my Mandrake n RHL CDs to it :-)) and make a user backup which creates a new partition (slightly smaller than the size of the data.. probably because of compression.) and backs up all the data to it. I interrupted the actual data copying process (AFTER it had created the partition), booted with Mandrake 9.0 cd, formatted the newly formed partition and installed Linux on it :-) I am sure there are better methods (resizing the windows partition for example.. but it didn't work for me somehow..), and I would really like to know about them too.. - AJ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
