dual boot- Linux and Windows- Toshiba laptop...
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Feb 18 22:02:19 UTC 2008
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.
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