Re: Dual booting Windows and Linux

From: Shane Spencer <shane@bogomip.com>
Date: Mon Apr 23 2007 - 11:25:20 AKDT

An ammendment to these fine instructions..

ext2ifs (http://www.fs-driver.org) works well if you want to share
access between a windows and linux system. I use it on my laptop to
mount my non-lvm ext2 filesystems under windows.

On 4/23/07, Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net> wrote:
> WARNING! THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS COULD CAUSE DATA LOSS AND OR LEAVE
> YOUR SYSTEM UNABLE TO BOOT. BACKUP YOUR DATA BEFORE YOU MESS WITH YOUR
> FILE SYSTEM. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
>
> It seams people are having trouble dual booting Windows and Linux from
> the same hard drive. Here's my 2 cents. I'm sure there are other ways o
> doing it.
>
> The best way to do it is install Windows on part of the drive and Linux
> on the rest. However, this won't work if you have a restore CD. The
> restore CD doesn't let you change the size of the partitions.
>
> Here's what I did on my IBM ThinkPad T42 (Laptop)
>
> 1. Reinstalled Windows XP using the restore CD set ( had linux on the
> laptop )
> 2. Ran defrag (recommend you do this)
> 3. Booted the Ubuntu CD and stated the install
> 4. Used the Ubuntu installer to create the partitions
> 1. Figured how much space I needed for Linux and Windows
> 2. Shrank the Windows partition
> 3. Put Ubntu on part of the free space
> 1. /
> 2. swap
> 3. etc...
> 4. Created a small Fat32 partition for sharing data between
> Windows and Ubuntu
>
> The system boots fine and I've never had any problems. I didn't use
> "ntfsresize". I shrank the Windows partition using the partition tool in
> the Ubuntu installer.
>
> NOTE
> Make sure you know how much space you need for each OS and your data. If
> you miss calculate and find you don't have enough space you will have to
> reinstall everything. As far as I can tell there is no way to make an
> NTFS file system bigger. I'm not about to trust my data to "ntfsresize".
> Not yet anyway.
>
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