Boot record

[Mark Phillips]

These are the steps I followed:

1. Started with a 30 GB hard drive with one partition with win2k
2. Used Partition Magic to split the 30 GB drive into 2 equal partitions 
(one primary and one logical or extended). The primary partition contains 
the existing win2k, the logical partition is for Linux.
3. Partition Magic prompted me to create a swap partition, and I took the 
space from the Linux partition. At this point, I have one primary 
partition, 15 GB, as FAT32 and one extended partition with 15 GB. The 
extended partition contains a 650 MB swap partition and a 14.350 GB 
partition as ext2.
4. I installed BootMagic to dual boot between windows and Linux
5. Rebooted after the partitioning was done
6. Rebooted with the Mandrake CD. It found the Linux partition and swap 
partition, formatted them, and installed the OS without a problem.

I hope this helps!

Mark Phillips
Phillips Marketing, Inc.
mark@phillipsmarketing.biz
480 945-0798
480 945-9197 fax

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-----Original Message-----
From:	DARREN BROWN [SMTP:fumandriver@msn.com]
Sent:	Friday, March 21, 2003 2:06 PM
To:	plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject:	RE: Boot record

Mark,

I have not been able to get to /boot, swap, and / on different slices. 
 Then
boot w/o problems.  Any ideas?  Tips, tricks.  I've only tried w/ RH 7.x,
not 8 yet.

Love PartitionMagic.  I recommend it to partiton and format all my drives. 
Flash or rotating.  I need to learn how to use Linux fdisk, here it is a
great tool.

Regards,
Darren

>From: Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>
>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>To: "'plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us'"
><plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>Subject: RE: Boot record
>Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:57:08 -0700
>
>Since I just went through this exercise, the minimum needed for Linux is 2
>partitions - / and swap. I recommend PartionMagic - it did a great job of
>adding the Linux partitions to a hard drive with Win2K installed. After
>partitioning the drive, I inserted the installation CD for Linux and in a
>few minutes had a dual boot system. Easy, fast, and simple.
>
>Mark Phillips
>Phillips Marketing, Inc.
>mark@phillipsmarketing.biz
>480 945-0798
>480 945-9197 fax
>
>No trees were destroyed in the sending of this contaminant free message,
>however, a significant number of electrons may have been inconvenienced.
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:	DARREN BROWN [SMTP:fumandriver@msn.com]
>Sent:	Friday, March 21, 2003 1:44 PM
>To:	plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>Subject:	Re: Boot record
>
> >From: "David A. Sinck" <plug-discuss@grueslayer.com>
> >Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> >To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> >Subject: Re: Boot record
> >Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:21:49 -0700
> >
> >
> >
> >\_ SMTP quoth DARREN BROWN on 3/21/2003 20:08 as having spake thusly:
> >\_
> >\_ Mike,
> >\_
> >\_ First load M$ and then Linux.  You will need to create two
> >\_ partitions.
> >
> >Err... At least three.  M$, /, swap.  Preferably at least four (+
> >/home).  Past that you start getting fancy and are best left up to
> >your own /devices.
> >
> >David
>
>Your right.  I always forget about the three slices in linux, plus one for
>/home.  Should he have one for /boot?
>
>Regards,
>Darren
>
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