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01-29-2004, 02:42 PM
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Gentlemen Farmer
Location: Middle of nowhere, Jersey
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what's on the 120gb hardrive now?
Has all the space been already allocated to a single partition? Probably the simplest answer will be: Partition Magic. Your linux install will have a partitioning tool as well. -bear
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01-30-2004, 11:21 AM
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Psycho
Location: Boston, MAss., USA
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If you're running a windows OS, it may have already partitioned your whole hard drive into a single partition, which Linux can't use...you can check by right clicking my computer, go to manage on the menu, then look at disk management under storage. If XP's using the whole HD, you may want to look into ParitionMagic, or another program that will resize your partitions to free space for Linux, as mentioned by j8ear earlier.
For tutorials, try: http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/
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02-04-2004, 09:39 PM
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Gentlemen Farmer
Location: Middle of nowhere, Jersey
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I rarely recommend partition magic frankly and really just flew off the cuff with my first post. Ideal solution is to back up all data on the drive now, and then wipe and rebuild it into probably three partitions, of 40 gb each. (approx, it's likely to not be exact.)
Anyway once so configured, you reinstall XP, and reimport your data. Allocate two of the partitions for XP, and then run your linux install using the remaining, as of yet not formatted, or allocated partition. Come to think of it, building a dual boot system is usually a bad idea in itself, and with that in mind...get another PC on which you can install, and therefore USE your linux build. Building a dual boot XP/linux system is possible, and manageable, but really impractical. imho, -bear
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02-05-2004, 02:18 PM
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Junkie
Location: Connecticut
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I agree:
Back-up, back-up, back-up! Read, read, read before you start! I'd also start with using an additional small drive for toying with linux. Re-partitioning a drive with an existing OS can lead to particular errors that are way beyond the scope of most users. I also agree that Partition Magic has lost its luster. I dual-boot, but I back up everything, write zeros to the entire disk, and repartition with blank partitions, thus reinstalling the operating systems -- Windows first (oldest versions first, then newer) and then linux, and I use GRUB as the boot manager for Windows and linux. If any of this seems foreign, it may be a good sign that you need to tread very carefully as you attempt this! A great way to experience linux safely is with a live CD, a bootable version of linux on a CD. Knoppix is a famous one, but now there are many others such as Gentoo and PCLinux that provide bootable CD images that decompress from the CD. You can save data to an existing folder on your HDD, and access your data from that drive as well (I'm thinking MP3's, etc, or even Office documents that can be opened with OpenOffice. However, I'd save new copies of whatever you change while in linux, treating the originals as read-only
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i burnt the ISO to a bootable cd and all that comes up is something that seems to be Command Prompt or MS-DOS. Anyone have any good online tutorials?? It would be much appreciate. 
