Partition Help

[j.drake]

Congratulations!

jd

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yeah i made the partition 20 gb and i have the home directory and configuration on it so now in a few days i might look into a dual install of both windows and linux on the hd thats a might not for sure thats why im giving it a few days cause as of now i have to restart 3-9 times to get knoppix to boot cause it wont uncompress all the time but eventually it does

[j.drake]

Cool. There are a number of intriguing options out there for dual boot, and it's interesting to watch them evolve. The one I used before actually involved leaving the Windows hd as is, installing a second hd, reversing the boot order in BIOS, and installing Linux and a boot loader to the second hd (which BIOS now boots first). The idea is to avoid having the bootloader mess with the Windows MBR, or having Linux touch in any way the Windows installation. I screwed it up the first time, but it still worked untill my mobo went out under warranty, and I never tried it again after they reimaged my hd.

Take a look at this post. http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtop...?p=57198#57198 The guy who wrote it has helped out a lot of folks, and seems to have a good handle on this. It still looks to be an autodetection setup, so it may not be attractive to you. But it looks to me like a logical next step for people who like poor man's, but don't like entering cheatcodes or using boot devices.

jd