On Saturday 09 February 2002 07:45 pm, Bruce Burhans wrote: > I've got XP, and a 20Gb harddrive, and I want to add Debian. Only > Woody will handle the USB stuff, so that's that. > So I re-install XP on the first 10Gb, leaving the rest as free > space. > Then I use -m and -n commands to create a Linux-only maximized > (extended) partition from the free space, which will be in ext2 by > default. > From their I create logical partitions for boot/root , swap , var , > and home. > > Because I despise XP, I will just boot Debian from a floppy (will > make several copies with rawrite) 'til I have a handle on Linux, then > use dd to write over the first partition with zeros, then dd again to > copy Woody verbatim to the the first partition where it can access the > BIOS..... > > Sound like a plan? >
bruce, do take the time to read up on creating a dual-boot system. talk of writing over the first partition with zeros just sounds like something you might wish you hadn't done, later on.
