Mavrick wrote:
>On 6/3/05, David R. Meyer <david@davidmeyer.org> wrote:
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>>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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When I installed Knoppix on my pc, I didn't care to retain anything M$.
However, it walked me through the entire process as I did it--wizard
style. It had me set up partitions for the swap partition and the one
to load the actual OS to. I had never done it before, but it was so
simple that I now realize that it wouldn't have been any big deal to
leave Windows on there. It even tells you how much storage space to set
the partitions to. and to partition, you just click "partition".
Unless I'm mistaken, it's so simple that you'll kick yourself for making
it so difficult(no offense, of course, I do the same thing usually.)
So, unless someone else tells you otherwise(since I am still a newbie
and not a Jedi master), just get in there and do it, and it will guide
you through on it's own.
--Michael
p.s.--I am running Knoppix 3.7 on a 500mh celeron, and It's awesome. I
don't have any want or need for windows, although our other machine is
an XP machine.
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