On Sunday 17 September 2006 15:04, linuxmaillists@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Sunday 17 September 2006 14:53, Norm wrote: > > Because of other commitments I need to keep 30gigs wasted on > > Micro$. I have a 60 gig Maxtor hard drive with a 10 gig > > partition for the Win OS and 20 gig for win programs, this > > leaves room for 30 gigs of Linux. I have tried with several > > distributions of Linux and all recognize the 10 gig boot > > partition but roll the remaining into a single partition. How > > do I set up a dual boot and not affect the part reserved for > > windows. Yes I would prefer to just do a clean install of > > Linux but that is not possible in this case as even > > reformatting and reinstalling the windows part is not > > practical. > > In your settings that you are selecting to do your install you > are not picking the correct one during the HDD partition > selection. sorry I have not done an install in about 2 months > and do not remember what it says. There is an install guide with pictures that shows the details of how to do this. -- Jack Gates http://www.jlgates.com
