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@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. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> (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. > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> fedora-list mailing list > >>>> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >>>> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > >>>> > >>> 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. -- ======================================================================= The more crap you put up with, the more crap you are going to get. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
