Re: [Gnumed-devel] Dual-boot Windows XP / debian sarge

[Syan Tan]

for f) , maybe just make it a lot smaller, because it's needed for testing cross platform

some other questions:

- how to easily make a CD bootable system such as knoppix and kanotix installed on

a  harddrive partition , and the /usr /etc/ /var stuff upgradeable from then on ?

unionfs seemed to work for /usr but I couldn't get it to work for more than one base directory,

and had to resort to running a script after bootup which relinks some subdirs of /etc and /var/lib to a persistent

filesystem /etc/  and /var/lib/ . 

- how does windows see the shared data partition ?

> You can have max. 4 primary partitions per hard drive - to Linux (and AFAIK to 
> XP) it is irrelevant whether the partition is primary or extended. Only 
> really mattered for DOS based operating systems (<= Windows ME)
>
> Usual procedure is:
> a) shrink your existing windows partition (if windows is already installed) or
> b) partition your harddisk into one primary boot partition for Windows, one 
> data partition for windows/linux (shared) per distro you want to install 
> (they can share swap and home!), one swap partition, one linux stystem 
> partition, one linux home partition (as a minimum)
> c) install windows
> d) install the linux distro(s) of your choice
> e) if you use sbm, let grub or lilo be iinstalled on your linux boot 
> partition, else  let them be installed on the disk's MBR
> f) afte a while, trash windows - because you don't need it anyway
> Horst
>
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