You can avoid the 8GB trap if you use GRUB as you have done. But i think it's
because Grub can be placed elsewhere than on the MBR. It's a chronic problem
with LILO cos there's no other place for it. The normal work-around is to use
an 8GB primary partion C with another larger one D made later when setting up
the linux system.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: problem installing Debian on dual boot with WinXP
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Freddie Exall <freddie_sig...@gmx.co.uk>
wrote:
I have to chip in that I've never had any such problem with gparted or grub
with a winxp partition of >8GB (currently 30GB), with grub on MBR. Osprober's
always done its job and gparted has served me well for as long as I've needed
it. I've had this setup for a while (well, over a year anyway;) now so maybe
something broke? Maybe I'm just lucky.
[snip]
Same here. I use either 20 or 30 gb partitions for XP and have no problems
with grub or dual-booting. Pretty sure it's a partition table thing and
someone already mentioned using cfdisk, which can be done from booting to the
Ubuntu Live CD before installing.
Mark
