From: "Nicolas Courtel" <cour...@cena.fr> To: <linux-fai@uni-koeln.de> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 4:54 AM Subject: Re: Problem partitioning dual-boot
I have successfully installed some. AFAIR I have preserved the 2 partitions that are used by Windows 7, and sometimes the diagnostic partition, and once Debian is installed os-prober inserts the appropriate line into Grub2, and both Windows & Debian Squeeze boot normally.
Well, I am installing Win7 via an autounattend.xml file because I'm blind and i can't run the Windows installer. So I configured it to install everything in the first partition. I can install debian to the second partition via the netinst iso. If I had to preserve that partition, that wouldn't work. So I don't know why debian works and FAI doesn't.
Anyway, I am guessing that this problem is more or less a result of the way I'm installing Win7. But I won't be doing that myself in the future. When we create dual-boot machines, my co-worker installs Windows and turns them over to me to install linux. I may have to change my disk_config for that but I can deal with that when it comes up.
I guess I'll leave it up to the FAI developers, Thomas and Michael, as to whether they consider this a bug and whether they want to pursue it further. I am willing to keep working on it but I don't want to waste anybody's time just because I'm doing something weird.
