ShakeyJake
September 8th, 2008, 10:56 PM
Right, so Im currently running Gutsy and I would like to upgrade to Hardy but my course kind of requires me to have Windows too so I was thinking of dual booting when I move up. I have an external hard drive that has backups of everything so reformatting the entire HDD isnt an issue.
I was thinking of using GParted on the live CD (or even on my installed 7.10 if that's possible) to format my disk into three separate partitions now and then install my OS's and data what do you think? Its a 300GB HDD.
50GB ntfs XP
50GB jfs Hardy (inc some swap space)
~200GB ??? shared data between OS's
Is this even possible? Ive had a look through some of the guides online, but they seem to mess around with slowly changing/partitioning the disk, is there something wrong with my plan?
Cheers guys,
Jack
I was thinking of using GParted on the live CD (or even on my installed 7.10 if that's possible) to format my disk into three separate partitions now and then install my OS's and data what do you think? Its a 300GB HDD.
50GB ntfs XP
50GB jfs Hardy (inc some swap space)
~200GB ??? shared data between OS's
Is this even possible? Ive had a look through some of the guides online, but they seem to mess around with slowly changing/partitioning the disk, is there something wrong with my plan?
Cheers guys,
Jack