Partitioning for new distro install
Andrew Hammond
ahammond-swQf4SbcV9C7WVzo/KQ3Mw at public.gmane.org
Fri Sep 17 17:46:02 UTC 2004
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bassix wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I'm planning on installing Arch Linux (anyone here use this?) on a win
| xp machine for dual-booting. Reading the manual for Arch installation
| http://www.archlinux.org/docs/en/guide/install/arch-install-guide.html
| , mentions separate root and boot partitions (for the automatic setup)
|
http://www.archlinux.org/docs/en/guide/install/arch-install-guide.html#commoninst31
| , but says all that is needed is a swap and root partition
|
http://www.archlinux.org/docs/en/guide/install/arch-install-guide.html#commoninst32
| , and would this pose any problems? I'm just trying to decrease the
| number of partitions on my physical drive (ntfs, fat32, swap, ext3).
|
| Thanks for any pointers!
I'd suggest you keep it simple and partition your disk as follows:
hda1 primary 200MB /boot
hda2 primary (whatever you want for windows) WinXP
hda3 primary (whatever you want to Linux) /
hda4 primary (extended)
hda5 extended 100MB /fat32 AKA D:
hda6 extended (about 2x your system memory, at least 256MB) swap
This gives you a fat32 partition for moving files between WinXP and
Linux, which can be handy. You may also want to carve off a seperate
/var and /tmp filesystems to make sure logfiles and temp files don't
fill up your root partition. But that sounds more complicated than what
you asked for.
After partitioning, follow these steps:
1) mark hda2 as the bootable partition using linux fdisk and install
windows.
2) back to linux install, fdisk again and mark hda1 bootable.
3) install lilo or grub or whatever boot load you're using into hda1's
boot sector, NOT the MBR.
Reason for this: next time you try installing or upgrading or even
breathing on windows it'll skank your bootloader if it's in MBR. If your
boatloader is in hda1 instead, you just fdisk and change the bootable
tag. Problem solved.
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