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Hard drive install - issues
Hi.
I have read as much as I can about installin Knoppix onto the hard drive, but I've yet to accomplish it.
My hard drive has a NTFS partition that Windows is on, and I have a smaller partition that I want to install Knoppix onto, which is currently in FAT32. I would like to have a dual-boot system.
How do I go about doing this? Do I first need to make the swap partition out of a slice of the FAT 32 partition I have? The partitioner in Knoppix does not seem to want to allow me to do that. Am I going to have trouble making my computer a dual-boot system?
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You'll need to shrink a partition to allow room for another partition that will be used as a swap partition. To do so open up a terminal and issue:
sudo qtparted
The usage of Qtparted seems fairly self explainatory but I'm not overly familiar w/ it myself.
*NOTE* You do not have to have a swap partition but it is highly recommended if you have less than 512M system RAM.
You do not mention the size of your partitions! I presume you'd simply shrink the FAT32 part to create a new swap partition then reformat the resized FAT32 w/ ext3 or other Linux file system.
Details please........
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I have 768 MB of RAM, so should I not bother with the swap partition?
What would I do with my FAT32 partition then to install Knoppix 3.4 and have a dual-boot system?
My Windows NTFS partition is something like 25 gig and my FAT32 partition is 3 gig.
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Ideal scenario:
(Remember all partition sizes are approximate and certainly adjustable)
Use qtparted to shrink the NTFS partition to 20G (or so)
delete the FAT32 partition
create 3 new partitions
1 Linux partition of 5G <------necessary (minimum 3G)
1 Linux swap of 256M <------optional (recommended you have 1G total RAM system/swap combined)
1 FAT32 partition of 2.7G to share files between M$ & Linux <---optional (nice for win users)
REBOOT!
Workable solution:
Don't change your partition table at all.
Format the FAT32 partition w/ ext3 (or your choice of fs)
mke2fs -j /dev/hda2 (for example)
Launch the installer
Choose your newly formatted Linux partition.
Put lilo into mbr.
REBOOT!
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Thank you very much mzilikazi!
I made a 256MB swap out of the 3 empty gigs, and I installed Knoppix on the remaining. I'm giong to get a 60 gig drive soon, and then I will give a lot more space to knoppix.
I do have a question. Is there a way to configure lilo so that WIndows is the default and after say 2-3 second it automatically boots into Windows? I would appreciate any advice on how to do that.
Thanks so much.
Best wishes!
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Sure you can. Put windows as the first OS entery in the lilo configuration file /etc/lilo.conf and set a timeout. I'd give better instrucitons but it's been a long while since I used lilo.
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Originally Posted by
mzilikazi
Sure you can. Put windows as the first OS entery in the lilo configuration file /etc/lilo.conf and set a timeout. I'd give better instrucitons but it's been a long while since I used lilo.
Thanks. I figured it out. You were very helpful. Thanks again!
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