[ltp] pre-installation advice?

[Dan Borello]

I used a bootable linux cd to create the partition table that i wanted. 
This hosed Windows XP as expected.  I then ran the recovery program and
it reinstalled XP, but while sticking it in the smaller partition i had
created and not fooling with my other partitions.

As for sharing between them, I made my home partition ext3 and load an
ext3 driver in windows XP when I need to access anything.  It is
read-only but works very well.

dan



On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 10:53, sltp@rhythm.cx wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 10:05:19AM +0000, Patrick Reilly wrote:
> > My T42p just got here a few days ago. I tried parted, and it munged the 
> > partition - the recovery program put it back OK once I dropped the partition.
> 
> Were you doing parted on the windows partition before it was converted to
> NTFS on the initial boot? Or were you doing parted once it was NTFS?
> 
> > I ended up just using QtParted (from Knoppix) to resize my /dev/hda1 down to 
> > 15GB (still a type c W95 FAT32(LBA) partition), made a new /dev/hda2 (FAT32 
> > 38GB), and left in /dev/hda3 (type c, 4GB). Recovery Program asked me if I 
> > wanted to wipe the partitions, or just install into "C:". I took the latter, 
> > rebooted, and ended up with a 15GB WinXP partition and 38GB that I could set 
> > up for linux - which I'm in the middle of doing.
> 
> That /dev/hda3 type c 4GB is the recovery partition? That's at the end of
> the disk I assume (and shipped that way from factory)?
> 
> BTW thanks for the numerous replies everyone.