From: Fred Cummins (fred.cummins at domain ucd.ie)
Date: Fri 28 Sep 2001 - 10:39:24 IST
Brand new Inspiron 8100, 20 GB HD, and I want to dual boot W2k
(installed, one monster partition) and RH 7.1. I've done this dual boot
thing, using fips to reduce the pre-installed OS, several times, but
this is my first meeting wtith W2k and it doesn't play ball.
Trying to make a bootable floppy, it refuses the /s switch (format a:/s
results in a brief and unreadable console pop-up which immediately
disappears).
So I make the bootable floppy on my W98/RH7.1 desk machine, and the
machine boots (as W98) but fips can only give me 1 GB for my new
partition...not enough, I'd like to split the disk 50-50 between OSs.
(I don't have a copy of Partition Magic, but I'm certainly not confident
it would do better).
W2k comes with a sexy new tool called Disk Manager which handles
partitioning and drive mapping, but wouldn't ya know, they thought not
to include partition resizing.
Googling the problem suggested that most people have overcome this by
reinstalling the W2k os, which I'd really rather not do, as it has quite
a bit of pre-installed software, and I'm no whiz at restoring windows
settings....I use it for the few apps which increase productivity, not
to get bogged down.
There is the option of doing a partitionless install, but this promises
a performance hit.
So the question(s):
Does anyone know how big the performance hit is if you do a
partitionless install? (I do some C/C++ development, a little Java, a
lot of Perl....)
Can anyone see a way around this without reinstalling W2k?
Thanks for suggestions
Fred
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