[TriLUG] Laptop installation question

[Steven Klund]

Chris,
 
Since you are destined to reload your PC, take the time to partition it so
windows only uses a portion of the total HD.
 
On my 40 gig HD, I have the Win (NTFS) partitioned at 25 gig, Linux as 13
gig, a FAT32 partition for sharing files between the two, and the remainder
used as a swap partition.
Having the FAT32 - share partition really helps.  I can put all my MS office
docs there and get them with AibWord or OpenOffice, as well as having the
capabilities of sharing many other files. 
 
Again, since you have to dump your HD you may as well set it up this way. 
Also,  when your Windows gets goobered up again, you can repair or reload
without losing any important data sinice it is now on another partition. 
And repairing grub is a lot easier also.
 
Steve
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: Christopher Blackmon
Date: 02/23/06 10:36:16
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Laptop installation question
 
Bzzt... wrong.  *sigh*
 
Now I have to do the system restore again.
 
guess I'll move on to suggestion number 2.
 
Christopher.
 
 
--- William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:
 
> You shouldn't.  Windows probably thought that the
> installation was
> corrupted because the disk partition sizes/layout
> didn't match what it
> remembered them to be (not because of the boot
> manager).  Reinstalling
> Windows....uh..."pursuaded" Windows that everything
> was OK...at the
> expense of your boot loader (grub/lilo/system
> commander/whatever) since
> Windows (in typical Windows fashion) assumes that
> it's the only game in
> town.
>
> The suggestion to reinstall your boot loader should
> fix the Linux boot
> problem and (so long as you created an entry in your
> boot configuration
> for Windows) leave Windows happily humming along.
>
> --
> William Sutton
>
>
> On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Christopher Blackmon wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > --- Kevin Otte <nivex at nivex.net> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:59:02PM -0800,
> > > Christopher Blackmon wrote:
> > > > After the system restore I notice that the
> > > > linux partitions are still there.. there is
> just
> > > no
> > > > boot manager any more.
> > >
> > > You'll need to boot off the FC disc into rescue
> > > mode.  Have it mount the
> > > target installation it finds.  Then:
> > >
> > > chroot /mnt/sysimage
> > > grub-install '(hd0)'
> > > exit
> > >
> > > It may mount it somewhere other than
> /mnt/sysimage.
> > > The rescue startup will
> > > tell you.
> > >
> > > Reboot and you should be all set.
> > >
> >
> > If I do this, won't I be at the same point I
> started
> > with?  With the machine thinking that the hard
> drive
> > has been corrupted and wanting to do a restore?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Christopher.
> >
> >
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