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From: Mark on 21 May 2010 21:50 On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:38 AM, roberto <roberto03(a)gmail.com> wrote: > hello, > a friend gave me a laptop (sony vaio) where i want to install debian > squeeze (in dual boot); > > [snip] > > how would you repartitionate the disk, since i have to leave a certain > amount of space for Xp for other users ? > i thought about installing debian next to the VAIO_ partition and then > use the other partition VAIO for read and write > What I do in dual boot situations (starting from center of hdd working towards the outside) is have 20 GB for XP, 20 GB for Debian (2 GB of that is swap space), then a fat32 partition for the remainder of the disk called "storage" or something similar, that gets mounted in XP as E: drive for example, and in Debian by editing /etc/fstab. I choose fat32 becuase of it's native read/write support in Windows and Debian - ntfs could work though with ntfs-3g. You can use jkdefraggui (freeware) in XP to move all files to the start of the partition before re-sizing so the re-partitioning doesn't mess up XP. It's worked for me several times when adding Debian to an XP-only drive. Just my thoughts, take or leave as you wish. Good luck either way. Mark
From: roberto on 27 May 2010 07:20
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson(a)cox.net> wrote: > > Which is the "real" XP partition, sda2 or sda5? > > If nothing's on sda5, then that should be more than enough for a laptop > install. > it seems i am not an Xp expert anymore ... i totally missed that the VAIO_ (aka D:) partition is totally empty :) i'll place squeeze there -- roberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTilcQlC1zRDTQNMsfhA12ZmY3nfeG2ArLJvdq7v-(a)mail.gmail.com |