From: Conor Daly (conor.daly at domain oceanfree.net)
Date: Sat 07 Sep 2002 - 10:34:26 IST
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 03:46:50PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Bryan Hayes thought:
> Hello ILUG Gurus.. and particularly those of you who use linux on their
> laptops! I have a dell laptop (latitude c640), and am about to risk
> everything on my hard drive by installing linux, so I have a couple of
> questions first that I hope you can help me with:
> The hard drive has 30GB space. I intend to give 5GB to linux. At the moment
> the partitions are:
> 1. Dell Utility partition. 70MB FAT primary
> 2. c drive: 6.5GB FAT32 primary
> 3. d drive: 23GB FAT32 primary
> 4. unallocated space ?MB primary
> OS: Windows 2000 professionnel.
> The 5 gigs I intend to take from the D drive space. I'd like to install
> debian linux. Am I correct in thinking I need 2 partitions for Linux? One
> for ext2 and one for swap? And that maximum primaty partitions is 4?? Can
> Linux be installed in a logical/extended partition, with the ext2 and swap
> partitions both in the logical/extended partition. Any recommendations on
> best way to resize the d drive to make space for linux? I dont have
> partition magic. Fips doesnt work in a windows environment. Windows2000
> doesn't offer the possibilty to "restart in dos". I am not sure if I need
You need a DOS boot floppy. If you can't make one with W2k, you can
download one (doesn't have to be an M$ one, DrDOS will do fine. You can
put fips on that and do your stuff.
Mind you, if you haven't got too much stuff in your d: drive, it might be
just as easy to empty it, delete it and make a new set of partitions along
the lines of:
1. Dell utility 70Mb Don't delete this
2. c drive 6.5Gb Or this
3. /boot 16Mb linux boot to keep lilo happy
4. extended 23Gb Extended for rest of partitions
5. d drive 10Gb So you can convert one of these for
6. e drive 8Gb linux later when you realise it's what
your _really_ want
7. / 5Gb linux root
8. swap 256Mb swap space
Conor
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