Re: [SLUG] partitioning for Linux and XP

From: Vader3467 (vader347@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Apr 11 2009 - 13:54:25 EDT


I'm sure it needs to be primary but I don't think it needs to be first.
I'm not 100% sure, but every dual boot I always have windows XP as a
primary partition and first. I think I saw a tutorial somewhere that
had windows second though.

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Setheck <setheck@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm not 100% sure since I haven't dual booted in a while, but as I recall
> you have to install XP first for reasons pertaining partitions and because
> XP will blow away the MBR without asking.
>
> Seth,
>
> On Apr 11, 2009, at 9:49 AM, Eben King wrote:
>
>> I got a 312 GiB (marketed as "320 GB") SATA drive and a USB case.  My aim
>> is to use it as a bootable backup for my 78 GiB / 80 GB internal drive, and
>> also to hold XP.  To that end, I partitioned it as follows:
>>
>> partition    mount point    size
>> 1             / backup      15.5 GiB
>> 2             swap          2.3 GiB
>> 3             /usr backup   4.2 GiB
>> 4             extended      276.9 GiB (eg the rest of the disk)
>>  5           /home backup  way too big ... I'll deal with that
>>  6           XP            49.9 GiB
>>  (more unpartitioned space)
>>
>> So the XP installer complains there's no XP-compatible partition
>> available, but it won't say what it wants.  Good design, folks.  Anyone know
>> what it wants?  I tried making it "bootable" and also setting the same flag
>> for partition 6, no go.  I deleted and recreated the partition using XP's
>> own utility, no dice.  Does it need to be primary?  The first, $DEITY
>> forbid? Can I make it like it wants it, then use gparted to move it to where
>> I want it?
>>
>> And fdisk complains for partitions 1-4 that "Partition N does not end on
>> cylinder boundary.".  I guess that for each of those, I need to note what
>> cylinder it ends on now, delete then remake it so it ends on a cylinder
>> boundary.  Unless there's a way to clean it up non-destructively?
>>
>> --
>> -eben   QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP   royalty.mine.nu:81
>>
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