lucky13
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Posted: Mar. 23 2007,08:22 |
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| Quote (curaga @ Mar. 23 2007,01:20) | | Then a 30-day trial of partition magic or so would do it... |
No, it really wouldn't do it. Not when there are much better tools -- much better ways to skin that cat -- available.
| Quote | | Many people create at least 2 partitions in the beginning, so XP and programs dont interfere. |
1. That's not why XP and Vista use two partitions (recommended). One is for system recovery.
2. The system recovery partition isn't 1.44-2 MB. It's many times that. Per what you allude to below about turning it into a swap later, that would presume ditching the recovery partition and/or Windows altogether. Is that a very practical idea for someone who uses a computer for work, personal recordkeeping, etc., or who intends to keep and use Windows on that hard drive? Nope.
3. A floppy image installed to a 1.44-2 MB (or even a 500 MB recovery) partition would still require a bootloader. Chicken or egg, curaga?
4. ETC.
| Quote | | If there is some free space, then fdisk is ok. |
No, it isn't.
| Quote | | Loadlin cannot use XP or Vista (I think) so it's out of question, |
There are still much more practical ways to skin your cat.
http://marc.herbert.free.fr/linux/win2linstall.html
| Quote | | and a grub image would be good, but it's not available as easily as the bootfloppy. |
See above link.
| Quote | | ZipSlack and Dyne look good, but they aren't DSL |
My point is that neither ZipSlack nor Dyne nor DSL requires a 1.44-2MB partition with a boot floppy to load or install Linux in (or near) a Windows environment.
| Quote | | And that partition can be turned afterwards to swap or merged to other partitions.. |
A 2MB swap? LOL! That'll teach me to get on here after an all-nighter.
Even if you really, really, seriously DO mean screwing up an entire 500+ MB Windows recovery partition just to install a 1.44 MB floppy image to do something that's much more easily accomplished in much more user-friendly ways, I'm TOTALLY against suggesting Windows users screw around with their recovery partitions for this purpose, make new partitions especially for this "alternative technique," OR turn their recovery partitions into Linux swap partitions unless they intend to ditch Windows altogether. Most people want and need stable systems; that includes recovery partitions (I set one up on this computer for Linux so I have a quick place to make and store frequent /home tarballs). It's not a very good idea to get a 30-day license and play around with partitions for a month.
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