i want to have a dual boot both windows and linux.currently i have windows 2000.can u help me in doing that?

Question

i want to have a dual boot both windows and linux.currently i have windows 2000.can u help me in doing that in a detailed manner till the partitioning of tmp,var,usr,home and boot.Like what is the space that needs to be given for each and what exactly to do with them.How much space need to be alloacated.My RAM is 512.

I've installed LINUX on D drive but dont know what happened, my entire D drive is not visible now.when i'm seeing in my windows, it does not even show about my D drive.

can some great techie help me in successfully installing LINUX along with dual boot, by giving me a detailed procedure

Answer 1

raj when u loaded LINUX inot ur sysytem u must have deleted the D drive and must have formatted with a non NT /nonFAT system file. hence u now donot see ur D drive with windows ,because u have LINUX into it and window doesnot recognise it. ur question makes it very clear to me that ur installation was perfect.everything is ok.now RAM plays a secondary role here.i have seen systems with 128 rama nd p4 to have being booting with linux. all matters is the disk space u have.RAM is just a temporary place to hold the copy of the operating system and the hard disk contents.ok got it.
now when u installed LINUX while partioning the free space opt for Automatic partion and not the Manual one.for it chooses by random the swap value which u might not get right failing the installationi u need deatils for installation plz mail meand i will guide u althrough.let me know the version u are using is ti UBUNTU or DEBIAN or any other version.try these two these are simply funtastic i wil provide u with more details for installation if u need
take care bye

Answer 2

Usually installing Linux on a computer to dual boot with windows is a fairly automatic proceedure unless you want to intervene. Linux should have installed a boot loader, either grub or lilo, so that you can choose which operating system to boot into, do you get this option when you turn on your computer?
Windows won't see your Linux installation at all, although there is a programme which allows this (http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm), you will be able to access your windows partition (files & folders) from linux, dual booting gives you the option to use either Linux or Windows on the same machine but not at the same time.
Unless you are experience in installing Linux, there is no need to worry about putting the various directories such as /home, /boot, /tmp etc into separate partitions. It would be usefull to know which version of Linux you are using, they are all slightly different, but generally with the more recent distros, you just have to make sure you have the bios set to boot from the CD drive first, insert the linux CD, reboot and follow the instructions, Linux will do pretty much everything for you if you accept the default installation settings.
An excellent place to go for help is www.justlinux.com
Mail me if you need any help.

Answer 3

Most Linux distros have a nice install tool that will let you partition your harddrive to have both windows and Linux. You don't need to put it on a seperate drive.

Also, Linux does not use letters for drives.

Answer 4

Windows cannot read Linux partitions.

Here is a "How-To" article on dual booting with Windows and Linux:
http://www.enterprisedt.com/publications/dual_boot.html

Answer 5

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