dual boot- Linux and Windows- Toshiba laptop...

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 13:29 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 10:44 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >> Mike Chalmers wrote:
> >>> On 2/17/08, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> >>>> On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 00:31 -0500, Mike Chalmers wrote:
> >>>>  > I wasn't aware that the Toshiba recovery discs gave you the option to
> >>>>  > partition the disc, that is why I asked. I thought that recovery discs
> >>>>  > automatically took up the whole hard drive.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't know whether *they* do.  They weren't mentioned in the message
> >>>>  that I replied to.  You'd have to check on yours, or simply try it, to
> >>>>  see what options you get.
> >>>>
> >>>>  I can imagine recovery discs restoring a system to how it was when you
> >>>>  bought it.  In my case, on an Asus system, the initial setup was a 5 gig
> >>>>  recovery partition, half the drive as the OS, remainder as a spare
> >>>>  partition.  But I appear to have an ordinary Vista install disc, so I'd
> >>>>  expect to be asked how I wanted to set up the drive.
> >>>>
> >>>>  You can try pre-partitioning using Linux, and hoping that a Windows
> >>>>  install may just use already set-up partitions.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>  --
> >>>>  (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's
> >>>>   important to the thread.)
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >>>>
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> >>> I think my best bet is to install Windows using the recovery discs and
> >>> see if it has a partition option. If it does not then I will use a
> >>> partition program to resize the partition and then install Linux.
> >>>
> >> I would install Windows first. Windows is far more likely to damage 
> >> Linux that vice versa. Back when I ran dual boot I put the boot info in 
> >> the Linux partition and made that the active partition. Some vendor 
> >> Windows versions check the boot sector and object or "fix it" if it 
> >> changes. The MSFT boot sector should (as in used to) boot the active 
> >> partition
> > 
> >> n, which then gets you into grub.
> > The standard method that has always worked for me is:
> > 1. Start installing Linux until the point where you partition ans set
> > the types of the partition. Leave the first partition for Windows.
> > 2. Install Windows into its partition.
> > 3. Install Linux with grub boot in MBR on the first disk scanned.
> > 
> That works, but some versions keep a CRC of the MBR and after a change 
> either fail to boot or rewrite the MBR and then reboot. And the few 
> times I have watched a Windows install you did get a chance to diddle 
> partitions from that, although I don't remember if it was offered if 
> there were partitions already.
That may be but I have done this about 30 times and it has always works.
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