dual boot- Linux and Windows- Toshiba laptop...
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Tue Feb 19 19:24:58 UTC 2008
Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 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.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
>>>>>> I read messages from the public lists.
>>>>>>
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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.
It's part of virus protection, you may have it off, be installing from a
MSFT OEM version instead of vendor version, etc. If it works for you no
reason to change, but people do hit this in the real world, I found out
the hard way.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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