[LUGSB] Debian dual-boot

Vinay Pai vinay at cs.sunysb.edu
Fri Jan 30 08:13:58 EST 2004 

Reading from NTFS works perfectly. You can even (safely) modify existing
files if you use a 2.6 kernel. Creating/changing the size of/deleting
files is still not possible, though.

I don't know that much about Lilo, but Grub certainly has no problem
booting Win.

BTW, I would not recommend installing debian on a single partition. At
the very least, I think its good to have a smallish root partition (~4gb)
and a large /home... say 20GB (or howmuch ever you anticipate ever
needing).

I prefer to leave unpartitioned space rather than make giant partitions
that are mostly empty. That way I can add new filesystems, install other
operating systems or whatever easily.
Vinay

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Jareeedo wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I'm about to do a debian network install on a 200gb drive, which already
> consists of three partitions. Currently win2k3 server is installed on
> partition 1, along with all my data on partition 3. The idea is to
> install debian to partition 2, and dual boot. All three partitions are
> NTFS at the moment.
>
> My questions are:
> What should I look out for when installing lilo alongside win2k3 server?
> I have some critical data on partition 3, so I'm concerned about the
> possibility that I will no longer be able to access windows/my NTFS
> stored data. I'm concerned that this might occur, perhaps due to some
> windows/ntfs issues that I'm not aware of. Whats the best way of going
> about such an installation process keeping these issues in mind?
>
> There might be no issue at all with such an installation, but as the
> data on partition 3 is critical, I want to make sure I know everything
> before I go ahead and install.
>
> Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks.
>
> -Jared
>
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> May I ask what you dislike about using IE?

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Hello Jared,

Installing Debian with other windows partitions on your drive is quite a
breeze.  You can mount all your windows partitions as you install the
system itself.

Debian allows you to configure your kernel modules when you install the
system, so the only thing you need to remember is to enable NTFS support
:-)

LILO works perfectly with a configuration similar to yours, which is
what I have on my laptop.  I installed Debian and it works beautifully!

Have fun Debianing :-)

Cheers,
Aditya

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 01:44, Jareeedo wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm about to do a debian network install on a 200gb drive, which already
> consists of three partitions. Currently win2k3 server is installed on
> partition 1, along with all my data on partition 3. The idea is to
> install debian to partition 2, and dual boot. All three partitions are
> NTFS at the moment.
> 
> My questions are:
> What should I look out for when installing lilo alongside win2k3 server?
> I have some critical data on partition 3, so I'm concerned about the
> possibility that I will no longer be able to access windows/my NTFS
> stored data. I'm concerned that this might occur, perhaps due to some
> windows/ntfs issues that I'm not aware of. Whats the best way of going
> about such an installation process keeping these issues in mind?
> 
> There might be no issue at all with such an installation, but as the
> data on partition 3 is critical, I want to make sure I know everything
> before I go ahead and install.
> 
> Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks.
> 
> -Jared
> 
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Jared E. Halpern
> AIM: Jareeedo
> http://www.Jareeedo.com
> http://www.Jareeedo.com/106/prof
> 
> 
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Aditya Kashyap

Graduate Student
Department of Computer Science
State University of New York at Stony Brook

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