i'll have to see if like you said the newer version doesn't require you to provide a partition for it.
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 15:27, linux power wrote: > > Install XOSL > Binyon Steve Contr Det 4 AFC2TIG/ASRCC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: Is >the 100g drive empty? If so, physically disconnect the 40g and > make the 100g the primary (i.e. 'C' drive) and install Win on it, > then reconnect everything back where Linux will boot and adjust your > lilo.conf so you can select Windows or Linux. Not sure if it will > work, it seems everything I read requires Windows to be loaded first. > HTH > smbinyon > > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Pifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 5:19 PM > To: redhat > Subject: Partition Magic > > > I have a RH72 system where the OS is installed on a 40gig drive and > there's a second 100gig drive setup as disk2.I would like to install > Windows 2000 on a partition to use for games. > > I created a partition on the end of the 100gig drive to use for win2k, > but I couldn't install it because Windoze needs to be able to write to > the first partition. > > I then figured I would create room at the beginning of the drive, but > Partition Magic 7 will not let me resize the Linux ext2 partitions. It > will let me resize/move the one on the 100gig drive, but not the one the > OS is on. I figured I would have to reinstall grub, maybe even do a > system upgrade to make it work again after installing windoze, but I > can't even get that far. > > Is there any way for me to get Windoze installed without completely > wiping out the system and starting over? I would really hate to do that. > I have a ton of stuff on this system already. It was a pain to get X to > work on this system because of the video chipset and motherboard. > > I guess my other option is to do a huge copy of everything to a spot on > the 100 gig drive, repatition and install Windoze, then install Linux, > mounting the 100 gig drive again as disk2(obviously without formatting), > then try to recover all of my stuff again. Any reason this wouldn't > work? > > Any other suggestions? > Thanks, > James > (ps - sorry for the length of this post) > > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > Prøv betaversjonen av den nye Yahoo! Mail > Nytt design, enklere å bruke, alltid tilgang til Adressebok, Kalender og Notisbok -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
