Jerry Feldman wrote: > On 12/07/2008 04:20 PM, tns1 wrote: >> Dell 1525 laptop >> >> This new PC has the following primary partions: >> A fat16 partition of about 40MB (EISA configuration) >> A ntfs partition of around 280GB (XP system) >> An extended partition containing a fat32 partition of 2.5GB >> (MediaDirect) >> A fat32 partition of 10GB (DellRestore) >> >> Some of these are unfamiliar so I don't know if there are any >> restrictions on moving/resizing them. >> If I keep them, it seems like I'd have to more shuffling than I have >> done before if I am going to add the ususal >> boot, /, swap, particularly if boot needs to be a primary, and I'd >> also guess that the EISA partition needs to be >> primary and stay in the first 1024 cyls much like boot. The system >> still needs to preserve its original system restore >> and media direct functionality. >> >> I did give the FC10 installer a try, but it is not up to the task of >> automatically resizing and moving partitions, so >> I am using gparted on a Knoppix CD to do the heavy lifting. >> >> 1) Does anyone know what restrictions there are on moving/resizing >> the existing partitions above? >> 2) What would be the simplest workable partitioning for dual boot? > I generally run several linux installfest per year. The way I set up > dual boot is: > 1. resize the existing Windows XP. (partition 1) NTFS > 2. Sometimes Windows uses a second partition. That can be resized also. > 3. The next physical partition I set up as extended, and use the rest > for Linux: > 1. Swap - 2 or 3X memory. > 2. Root - maybe 10 - 20 GB > 3. Home - any size you need > > In your specific case, I would let the Fedora partitioner allocate the > root and home partitions. You would probably need to reduce the size > of the XP partition. Neither /boot nor swap need to be primary. In > the past on my old system, partition 1 was always the extended and > everything was a logical partition. The reason for /boot to be a > separate partition is that the MBR needs to be able to point directly > to the stage2 in /boot, and on large drives you want to make sure it > is somewhat close to the beginning. I don't recall the number of > cylinders off hand. > > Another thing that I am recommending for new multi-core systems is not > to resize at all, but to use virtualization so you can have both > Windows and Linux running at the same time. I have Windows XP > Professional and Windows Vista Ultimate running under KVM/QEMU on my > desktop with Windows XP Professional as the guest OS on my laptop > under Virtualbox. > I'm going to be joining the virtualization parade in a few minutes, doing pretty much this. You need a processor with hardware virtualization extensions to run under KVM. There is a how-to here http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Quick_Start Note that for laptops, you may have to go into the BIOS and actively turn on virtualization support before you install. That is what I had to do with my Dell Latitude E6400. Later today, I will actually do the installation process. Bob -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
