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| Jujitsu Lizard... |
 Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:39 am |
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I'll be buying up an HP laptop tonight with a 500G drive.
It is begging to be a dual-boot system.
What is my best way to do this? I'd like it to boot normally into Windows,
but boot into Linux if there is some user intervention during the boot
process.
I've always had good luck with Fedora ...
I don't need detailed instructions, just which tool to use for partitioning
and which boot loader to use.
Thanks.
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| Bit Twister... |
| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:46 pm |
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On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:39:32 -0500, Jujitsu Lizard wrote:
Quote: I'll be buying up an HP laptop tonight with a 500G drive.
It is begging to be a dual-boot system.
What is my best way to do this?
Defrag new machine's doze partitions.
See if you can make your doze recover/backup cd.
Spend another ~200 bucks to get OEM doze media from HP.
Most linux installers provide an option during the partition phase
to allow you to pick custom partitioning. That is where you get the
chance to resize current doze partitions and create/format custom partitions.
Suggest a swap partiton 512 meg bytes or size of memory. whichever is larger.
Followed by about a 10 to 12 gig partition for the install of linux.
I keep a few 12 gig partitions for testing the new release or other
linux installs. When happy with new release, old partition becomes
next test partition.
Quote: I'd like it to boot normally into Windows,
No problem, boot loader has option for setting default OS to boot
via a timer.
Quote: but boot into Linux if there is some user intervention during the boot
process.
Yep, usually you get a menu to select from.
Quote: I've always had good luck with Fedora ...
Then I am surprised you are asking questions.
Quote: I don't need detailed instructions, just which tool to use for partitioning
Want a stand alone partitioning tool, use gparted from a rescue cd or
a live cd. Suggestions in no particular order.
http://partedmagic.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/
http://www.sysresccd.org
Quote: and which boot loader to use.
I recommend the default boot loader provided by whichever linux you
decide to use. Grub seems to be the predominant boot loader. |
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