On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:51:24 -0700, Josh Ricker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello to all, > > I am new to Linux and have some questions about installing Sarge on a > Windows 2000 machine. I want to partition the hard drive and have > dual boot functionality. I read online last night (in a couple of > places) that Linux won't boot if it is installed past 1024 cylinders > on the drive.
I've never had to worry about this, is this old info? > So I need to set up a partition before that point on > the drive...no problem...but, my drive is formatted in NTFS and not > Fat32. So I downloaded a trial of PartitionMagic 8.0 to do the > partitioning. I haven't taken any action yet, because I still had > some questions about it. > > 1. Can I partition the drive and format the new partition as Fat32 and > leave the first part of the disk as NTFS? > 2. If the above mentioned is ok, how do I load sarge onto the new partition? > 3. If the above mentioned is NOT ok, what do I do? I've never used Partition magic, but all you need is to make your NTFS Windoze partition smaller and leave the rest of your drive unpartitioned. I've never installed Debian, but any good distro will offer to install itself in the unpartitioned hard drive space so you can dual boot. It will want to partition that up into at least a couple Linux partitions, i.e. a swap partition and an ext3 partition. Maybe a few ext3 partitions, or maybe reiser instead of ext3. Usually accepting the defaults works very well, though again, I don't know what Sarge does. Debian generally isn't the most friendly of Linux distributions for newbies, in case you hadn't heard. You might start with something like Mandrake, Fedora, or Ubuntu (which is based on Debian if you have your heart set on that). Bryan -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/
