[Server-devel] Installing on dual boot

[Martin Langhoff]

Hi David!

the xs-0.4 installer will wipe your disk clean. Avoid it!

The xs-0.5 installer (wait a day or so for the formal release, or grab
the 'dev10' candidate) is pretty much a vanilla Fedora installer using
anaconda. That means that you can use the usual "how to get Fedora 9
to dual boot with windows" procedures published.

You can probably make it use just one partition instead of the /boot,
/ and /library set it wants. Some scripts do assume that /library is
separate when calculating user storage quotas but you're unlikely to
see any problems with that, unless you create tons of user accounts in
it (via registration).

I'm a bit out of touch as to which procedures are best, specially in
your case when you already have windows installed. One strategy I've
used in the past has been to shrink the ntfs partition and install
linux, with grub in the MBR controlling the multi-boot process.

cheers,


m

2008/11/15 David Leeming <leeming at pipolfastaem.gov.sb>:
> I have a laptop with dual boot (Vista Business, Ubuntu 7.10). It uses the
> Windows boot loader to ask which to use on startup.I want to use the laptop
> on my travels for demonstrations (using a prototype active antenna). I used
> the Windows install feature to install Ubuntu from within Windows. In
> Windows, the space/partition allocated to Ubuntu shows up as a separate
> drive.
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> Is it possible to install the XS image on top of this configuration,
>  overwriting the Ubuntu OS on drive E but leaving the Windows and dual boot
> loader intact?
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> David Leeming
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