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Linux Installation Strategies mini-HOWTO
Linux Installation Strategies mini−HOWTO
Tobby Banerjee
tobbyb@usa.net
Philippe Martin −
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Revision 1.0.1
2001−05−02
Revised by: pm
Conversion to DocBook SGML.
Revision 1.0
2000−12−20
Revised by: tb
Initial release.
This document discusses a few installation strategies for those who intend to dual−boot between Windows
and Linux.
Linux Installation Strategies mini−HOWTO
Table of Contents
1. License.
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2. Mai.
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3. The basics.
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4. A note about hard disks and partitions..
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5. The concepts.
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6. Partitioning.
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7. Installation.
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8. The Lilo way.
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9. The Loadlin way.
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10. Rebooting.
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11. Setting up Loadlin.
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12. Removing Linux and restoring your Windows partition to its Original state.
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13. XFree 4.01.
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14. Tips and Suggestions..
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15. The State of Linux − What to Expect.
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15.1. The Specifics − Wordprocessing.
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15.2. Multimedia.
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15.3. Internet.
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15.4. Games
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15.5. Desktop Publishing.
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1. License
You are free to do with this document whatever you please but reading it would be a good idea. I am
naturally not responsible for any consequence or action arising out of the use of information provided in this
document. I am not a very responsible person and you heed me at your own peril.
1. License
1
2. Mail
Should you find this document helpful please feel free to mail me at
<
tobbyb@hotmail.com
>
. Microsoft
shares will be highly appreciated but short of that flattery will do just fine.
2. Mail
2
3. The basics
The primary purpose of this document is to make the co−existance between Windows and Linux as simple
and uncomplex as possible which means as far as Windows is concerned Linux doesn't exist. It is now
possible to install Linux on a Windows partition as a disk image with what is known as the
loopback filesystem − RedHat and Mandrake offer this − but it's an extremely bad idea because of the way
Windows handles files. Defragmenting the system will become a nightmare and Linux itself will crawl and it
will ruin both your Windows and Linux experience. The same applies to the Umsdos filesystem (though
Linux won't crawl) and it's best to install Linux on a partition of its own. This document makes a few
presumptions but nothing to worry about − just a few.
·
You are familiar with computers ie you know how to boot the system using the floppy or cdrom drive
You are using Windows 9x (95,98) not Me or 2000.
·
You know your way around DOS and Windows
·
You know what a partition is and want to install Linux on a partition of its own
·
You have a large hard disk − upward of
8.4
Gb − which currently holds Windows and on which
you intend to install Linux (even those who with smaller disks can read on).
·
With that out of the way we can begin. The first thing to do is to make space for Linux. Like other Linux
wannabes you are likely to be stuck with a huge single partition with Windows on it. This would be your
C
drive. In my case it was hogging
13.5
gigs. You have to make a separate partition for Linux out of this
space (which would then be labelled as
D
). You can either use Windows Fdisk which really is not a good idea
as it would entail losing all your data and making new partitions from scratch, one for Windows and one for
Linux, or you can take the easier and far more convenient way out and use a free and excellent
non−destructive partitioning utility called Fips. What makes Fips special is its ability to create a new partition
out of the free space in your
C
partition without any loss of data. The latest version of Fips (
2.0
) is available
at its homepage
http://www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips/
and most Linux distributions carry it under the
/dostools
or
/dosutils
directory in the primary cd.
We are going to concentrate on using Fips so if you are going to use Windows Fdisk − which actually is
totally unnecessary unless you have just bought a new system and even then it's a better idea to make a single
partition with Windows Fdisk, install Windows on it and then use Fips to split it for reasons that I'm going to
explain later in this document − or a commercial partition utility like Partition Magic you are on your own.
3. The basics
3
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