Instructions to unsubscribe from this list at the end of the message - --------------------------------------------------------------------- In Reply to your partitioning problem:
First you have to partition your harddisk with some partition tool which is already available in Windows XP (somewhere in 'Administration Tools'). In this way you can still keep your existing data and allocate the free available space to a new partition. So till now you've got the NFTS partition (by default for Windows XP) and another partition (to be used for Linux). Next step is to run RH8 setup and choose the option Automatic partitioning and choose the partition you have just created using that tool in WinXP (which will be referred to some hdb or hda2, according to your configuration). The automatic partition will create 3 partitions in that space: the root '/' partition, the boot partitiion, and the swap partitiion (I normally choose twice the size of the RAM for my swap). Hope it helps. James. > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith Vassallo > Sent: 11 January 2003 13:23 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [LINUX.ORG.MT] Changing Distribution > > > Instructions to unsubscribe from this list at the end of the message > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Hello People, > > Long time no talk ;) I bought a new PC with two hard drives, one with > Mandrake 9.0, the other Windows XP (I feel so ashamed ;)). I've kept my old > PC too, which currently has the same configuration as the new one (two > harddisks, one mandrake 9.0, the other Win XP). > > On my old PC, I'd like to replace Mandrake 9.0 with Redhat 8.0. - that > means I'll have Win XP on one drive (NTFS) and RedHat 8 on the other. That > way I can get a good taste of both distributions. The problem, as usual, > comes with disk partitioning. Mandrake has a way of making things very > easy, something which RedHat have still to perfect. There is an option in > the installation program for Automatic Partitioning. This either removes all > the partitions from your system (which I don't want, since I have an NTFS > WinXP partition on the other hard disk) or, as described in the manual: > > "Remove all Linux partitions on this system - select this option to remove > only Linux partitions (partitions created from a previous Linux > installation). This will not remove other partitions you may have on your > hard drive(s) (such as VFAT or FAT32 partitions)." > > Does this mean that the installation program will erase my existing Mandrake > installation, and put RedHat in it's place? > > Keith > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the linux mailing > list. If you do not wish to continue receiving this mailing list, please > send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing only the > text "unsubscribe linux" > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the linux > mailing list. If you do not wish to continue receiving this mailing > list, please send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > containing only the text "unsubscribe linux" > - --------------------------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the linux mailing list. If you do not wish to continue receiving this mailing list, please send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing only the text "unsubscribe linux" ------------------------------
