jeanjean84
December 4th, 2008, 08:33 PM
Hello,
I need assistance to advise my oldest son (who lives in Africa: Liberia).
He has a laptop Dell Inspiron 6400 pre-installed with Ubuntu Feisty.
He is very happy with it, but needs to have Windows XP for his on-line studies…
Therefore dual-boot... Not too difficult!
I have that at home and have the practice of the crashes at the time of Windows installation, reinstall of GRUB, etc…
The problem comes with the partitioning of these Dell laptops:
$ sudo fdisk -l
Password:
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 12 96358+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 13 274 2104515 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda3 * 275 299 200812+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 300 9729 75746475 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 300 379 642568+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 380 9729 75103843+ 83 Linux
How to install XP in the simplest possible way?
Personally I think that the simplest way would be:
* to delete sda1 Dell Utility!
* sda2 is the "Reinstall Operating System"... could be useful... but not abolutely necessary with the Ubuntu Live-CDs... but I would keep it though!
* sda3 is the /boot: useful on a separated partition in multi-boot, isn't it? (personnally, I do not have /boot on an independent partition, so I do not really know...)
* sda4 : I would clean it ( delete the useless files, transfer the files not very often used on external disc or DVDs) and resize this extensive partition to 40 or 45 or 50 Gib).
* I would then create a primary partition on the free space (30 or 25 or 20 Gib) for XP.
With GParted, it is probably necessary to do it in several steps:
1) deleting sda1.
2) resizing the extensive partition sda4.
3) creating the new primary partition at the end of the hard disk. I understand it will be called sda1.
Then installing XP on this new primary partition.
It is a correct procedure?
It will be necessary of course to fiddle with GRUB (or maybe not as /boot is on an independent partition?).
Please help! Advice needed! ;)
Bye for now! ):P
I need assistance to advise my oldest son (who lives in Africa: Liberia).
He has a laptop Dell Inspiron 6400 pre-installed with Ubuntu Feisty.
He is very happy with it, but needs to have Windows XP for his on-line studies…
Therefore dual-boot... Not too difficult!
I have that at home and have the practice of the crashes at the time of Windows installation, reinstall of GRUB, etc…
The problem comes with the partitioning of these Dell laptops:
$ sudo fdisk -l
Password:
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 12 96358+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 13 274 2104515 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda3 * 275 299 200812+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 300 9729 75746475 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 300 379 642568+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 380 9729 75103843+ 83 Linux
How to install XP in the simplest possible way?
Personally I think that the simplest way would be:
* to delete sda1 Dell Utility!
* sda2 is the "Reinstall Operating System"... could be useful... but not abolutely necessary with the Ubuntu Live-CDs... but I would keep it though!
* sda3 is the /boot: useful on a separated partition in multi-boot, isn't it? (personnally, I do not have /boot on an independent partition, so I do not really know...)
* sda4 : I would clean it ( delete the useless files, transfer the files not very often used on external disc or DVDs) and resize this extensive partition to 40 or 45 or 50 Gib).
* I would then create a primary partition on the free space (30 or 25 or 20 Gib) for XP.
With GParted, it is probably necessary to do it in several steps:
1) deleting sda1.
2) resizing the extensive partition sda4.
3) creating the new primary partition at the end of the hard disk. I understand it will be called sda1.
Then installing XP on this new primary partition.
It is a correct procedure?
It will be necessary of course to fiddle with GRUB (or maybe not as /boot is on an independent partition?).
Please help! Advice needed! ;)
Bye for now! ):P