Currently i'm running on windows xp, how can i partition my drive so i can have linux working too?
2006-11-23 03:20:16 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Or you can use in Windows the program: Partition Magic (version 8.0 is the latest) so as to make a new partition from your existing hard drive and make it in an apropriate format for linux. Then through linux installation it will not be difficult to continue.
2006-11-23 03:27:54 · answer #1 · answered by Jejerian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
gpart, there is no substitute, well there is, but on my 1rst HDD Master,NTFS XP ,2nd HD Slave,Win2k/BeOS/Knoppix/Ubuntu, I have used the free and humanly understandable gpart. It is a Debian/Linux tool for setting up partitions on any Formatted HDD. You do not change the existing Format, you simply use some free or unallocated space to create a new parti with a boot loader.
By default, Windows does NOT want you using any Linux, yet. After the lawsuits and compensations and Removal of Restrictions maybe then XP/Vista will 'allow' the USER to place an OS that the Operater Owns onto a partition of a HD that the user owns.
Just google gpart, but also look in the Linux Distro package that you are useing and see if the latest, or stable gpart is already present.
gpart (0.1h-4.1) search that, or just ASK! about gpart.
2006-11-23 03:43:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
surely, i does not. the better thank you to evaluation is detect a digital device technologies which includes VMware or Microsoft's unfastened virtualPC product. yet once you insist; create a pair of time-honored partitions and deploy 2003 server, XP, Vista on them. bypass away something of the area open. Then deploy linux, and enable the linux setup wizard handbook you in coming up bootable linux partitions.
2016-10-12 23:37:41 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Download Disk Director partitioning software.
This software support both linux and windows files systems.
2006-11-25 01:59:37 · answer #4 · answered by unallocate 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most linux installers give you the option to partition when your installing, be careful though, make sure to backup all your data before partitioning or doing any similar changes to your computer
2006-11-23 03:22:25 · answer #5 · answered by edythemightyone 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
HI
Ok , first , how much is your hd , look that you have enogh space to do this , if you do , then try PARTITION MAGIC , if you dont want then use the linux parition manager. Now what is the linux you want to install ??? and how much space are we talking about here ??
2006-11-23 03:22:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
disk director from acronis can easily create linux partitions, i've used it for 3 years, and had never had any problems.
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/
2006-11-23 20:13:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html
2006-11-23 03:27:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋