On 6/3/05, David R. Meyer <david@davidmeyer.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has ever installed Knoppix on their hard drive
> along with WindowsXP? I am doing this on my corporate laptop, and
> don't want to reformat my entire hard drive...at least not yet.
>
> Is this a problem with Knoppix, or is it as easy as it is with Red Hat,
> Debian, or any of the others?
>
> Thanks!
>
> David R. Meyer
> Registered Linux User #388010
>
>
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I have two boxes dual-booted with SuSE and Win XP, one at work and one
at home. I have not had the pleasure of installing Knoppix, but I
can't imagine that it would be too different.
It is best to install Windows first, but don't format the entire drive
in NTFS, just a portion (i.e. half). Then install your linux distro.
It should recognize the Windows formatted portion of the hard drive
(it will call it "windows") and it will install on the unformatted
portion. SuSE comes with grub for a bootloader and gives you a choice
at bootup which OS you want to start. After 10 seconds if no input is
given it will continue to load up linux. I'm sure Knoppix comes with
a bootloader as well.
If the hdd is totally formatted for Windows, the linux installer may
be able to reformat a portion for linux (I used ext3 on both of mine).
I do not know for sure as both times I dual-booted I planned for it.
Partition Commander or some other third party partitioning software
may be your friend here.
Anyway, the process is very painless and if you have to use Windows
for work then you can at least have the option of booting into linux
when you don't have work to do.
Good luck, and let us know how it goes.
Eric
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