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@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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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.
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